People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
I was afraid of the internet. . . because I couldn't type.
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.
Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?