I want to be a painter." I said this with conviction. "Wha-a-t?" I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish’s face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in.

THE LAW OF INFLUENCE - The proof of leadership is in the followers

The truth is you can never succeed with stockholders until you first succeed in the marketplace, and you can never succeed in the marketplace until you first succeed in the workplace.

Stay open-minded about solutions that come from outside of your domain and expertise. Think of it as “having one foot outside your world.”

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is; treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. - Goethe

Cascade meaning, not goals

Transformational leadership means leaders inspiring and motivating followers to achieve higher performance by appealing to their values and sense of purpose, facilitating wide-scale organizational change.

Study after study shows that having a good support network constitutes the single most powerful protection against becoming traumatized.

Without experiencing the rougher spots of life, our kids become exquisite, like orchids, yet are incapable, sometimes terribly incapable, of thriving in the real world on their own.

The shift from hunting-gathering to food production did not always coincide with a shift from nomadism to sedentary living.