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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.