The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, you are not leading well.
I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have a role in that. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is that I can change. I can do better. If you can get up every day, stay optimistic, and believe the future is better than the past, those few things get you through a lot of tough times.
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.
Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something. . . Find your passion and get good at it.
Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.
England, so long mistress of the sea, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.
There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.