It’s important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

gut” when they should be more rational.

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Don’t let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.