Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide.

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.

Beware! Your mind is a target!

You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

I travel as much as I can and meet people.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic thing, it's a how hard are you willing to work for it.

When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back.