The Lean Startup method, in contrast, is designed to teach you how to drive a startup. Instead of making complex plans that are based on a lot of assumptions, you can make constant adjustments with a steering wheel called the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop.

High performers have the shortest integration times and branch lifetimes, with branch life and integration typically lasting hours –or a day.

A leader should have a close relationship with her team members, but never to the point of compromising her authority or the overall team’s success.

If they need too much of your time, you can’t just tell them to stop bothering you. You have to wean them away and make it seem like it’s their idea. Let them figure out what they should be doing on their own. Let them tell you where you’re not needed.

We help organizations focus on and deliver specific results. We also help them build more capability—leaders and individual contributors that can have the capability to perform at new levels.

Jealousy challenges our power to stay open and centered, without blame or withdrawal, in the midst of rejection. To go through it rather than simply bolster our ego shows us a path to maturity and liberation.

Gun for a “Yes” straight off the bat, though, and your counterpart gets defensive, wary, and skittish.

Life is too short to wait for someone else to give you permission or approval to follow your dreams.

People use social currency to achieve desired positive impressions among their families, friends, and colleagues.

The third little detail we haven’t yet considered is that next year is only one year.