The key is to find ways to delegate or streamline all the tasks that distract you from doing what you do best, because when you do more of what you do best, you achieve more—and your career or your business or your personal life naturally flourishes.

The fourth-generation paradigm is people first, things second. It’s leadership first, management second. It’s effectiveness first, efficiency second. It’s purpose first, structure second. It’s vision first, method second.

When you engage in work (professional, community, family) that taps your talent and fuels your passion—that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet—therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code.

Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future.

Identify Your Most Important Task (MIT) and Work On It Each Day Before Doing Anything Else

A company can’t solve problems that are getting in the way of results if the people causing those problems are in the box, or unable to see how they’re responsible.

Investment opportunities abound for the layperson. By simply observing business developments and taking notice of your immediate world—from the mall to the workplace—you can discover potentially successful companies before professional analysts do.

Disappointment has an upside as well. It inspires hope by making hope necessary.

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask: why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats?

Synergy unleashes tremendous capacity. It gives birth to new ideas. It brings you together in new multidimensional ways, making huge deposits in the Emotional Bank Account because creating something new with someone else is enormously bonding.