Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Thank God for imminent doomsday.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

Deep down inside we're all the same. We all have the same emotions.