In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.
We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
And with his arm around the younger man's shoulders still, he led him away from the bow and back to the small group by the tiller. Halt glanced up as they approached, caught a look from Gilan and had a pretty good idea what they had been talking about. "Where have you two been?" he asked, his tone light. admiring the view," Gilan told him. "Thought you might need a hand from the two wisest heads on board.