A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Nothing is worse than the person in their 40s who says, 'I'm not going to learn this. ' 'I don't carry an iPad. ' That will label you and put you right in the corner. Some people do it as a badge of honor. I've seen them myself, they walk around bragging [about not knowing much about technology].
Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.
Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
I'm not an educator. . . I'm a learner.