Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Be candid with everyone.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Change before you have to.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.

The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Choice Theory explains that, for all practical purposes, we choose everything we do.

The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.