The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

Every leader can get more passion, ingenuity and energy from their people, and every employees wants to feel connected to a great cause. When this works, it really is amazing to see.

Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.

Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.

As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.

We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.