I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Leaders can hold onto busyness like a weapon of protection.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

Understanding is simple. Knowing is complicated.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.