Vision and priorities should precede actions. Actions should be judged through the prism of how the firm adds value and the key competencies it seeks to build.

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.

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.

If you don't like something don't protest from a far. Work within it to change it. Otherwise, you'll just be one voice of many rather than a trusted voice of influence.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.