I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself
Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead. . . . The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.
What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.
The development andor revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.
Executive Intelligence , and its evaluation are very must about one's ability to think under pressure. Given the evolution of global business, this is more important today, and it's going to stay that way.
In the past there was not much social acceptance of men taking a primary care taking role at home. That has changed, and along with it, the opportunities for mothers to take on more demanding executive roles.
Business schools need to help students learn how to thrive under pressure. To understand themselves and their psychological vulnerability that might inhibit their ability to be effective in roles that involve ongoing complexity and duress. Preparation is essential.
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
I don't do a television show for awards. You make it so people will enjoy watching it.
He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.
Art is when things appear rounded.