The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

My life is measured into two distinct phases . . . BC is before cellulite and AC is for after cellulite. Sad but so true!

My wife loves Europe but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.