Don’t waste time explaining why things are going wrong, spend it on trying to make them right.

A commitment is falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.

The first Law of Combat: Cover and Move. This is teamwork—every individual and team within the team, mutually supporting one another to accomplish the mission.

When reviewing any candidate’s background, you must identify whether they have demonstrated themselves to be extraordinary in some way. The most obvious demonstration is outstanding performance within an outstanding peer group.

If one were to attempt to identify a single problematic aspect of human reasoning that deserves attention above all others, the confirmation bias would have to be among the candidates for consideration.

Virality is most valuable when the brand or product benefit is integral to the story. When it’s woven so deeply into the narrative that people can’t tell the story without mentioning it.

We found that where code deployments are most painful, you’ll find the poorest software delivery performance, organizational performance, and culture.

The Soviet Union had many more tanks than the United States, but Ogarkov realized his tanks would soon be many times more vulnerable in a fight with the U.S.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do.

A paradox. life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.