Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.

If you're the smartest person in the room, it can sometimes be hard to learn to delegate - the person to whom you're delegating will do the task worse than you would - and it will annoy you!

As a leader, it is often better to ask the right questions and listen than to have all the answers.

The better strategy is to focus on strengths and surround yourself with people who can complement your skills. However, you have to first do the analysis.

The Rules of Marriage hasn't changed since Adam. Break the Rules and Break your Marriage

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

I'm a very good bowler, which I discovered a few months ago.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.