Instead of going back and looking at the question, people tinker with the solution, trying to make it fit.”-Claude Legrande…”The consequences of failing to do that [in our personal lives] are the same as those...

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don’t get upset when no one is around who’s willing to give you a push.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

A SWOT analysis involves asking, “What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to...

The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.

The least important person in a business is the most important person in a business.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

You don’t have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don’t trust companies; they trust people.

Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.

Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

Get one Manager Commitment as a result of the other Manager Commitment and you have a powerful equation for Earnings: E=MC2.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they’ve been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?