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.

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.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.

You have the right to follow your heart. Do what feels right, for you.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.

♥"I'm a procrastinating underachiever at heart."♥