Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called ” The Top 100.” They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could...

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, ” Memento Mori”: Remember you...

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an...

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Sometimes I worry about this country.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main...

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

Interestingly, water in a bottle never knows that the bottle gives him the shape, same like those people in the system!!!!

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.

Things to know from books to read

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without...

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.

Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It’s doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly...

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we...

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

One of Job’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. ” If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod,...

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. ” There’s a temptation in our...

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.