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

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

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to...

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.

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

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...

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

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.

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

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.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

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.