Once we achieve clarity and buy-in, it is then that we have to hold each other accountable for what we sign up to do, for high standards of performance and behavior. And as simple as that sounds, most executives hate to do it, especially when it comes to a peer’s behavior, because they want to avoid interpersonal discomfort.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

A spiritual community consists of people who have the integrity to come clean. It is comprised of those who own their shortcomings and failures because they hate them more than they hate the shortcomings and failures of others.

The further away people are in the organizational chart, the less they will communicate.

The sandbox was designed to protect them and the parent organization, and any expansion needs to take this into account.

Engage actively in community service and inclusion.

The obsessive planner, essentially, is demanding certain reassurances from the future – but the future isn’t the sort of thing that can ever provide the reassurance he craves, for the obvious reason that it’s still in the future.

He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

If we create a routine that enshrines the essentials, we will begin to execute them on autopilot. Instead of consciously pursuing the essential, it will happen without our having to think about it.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,’ and a misunderstanding is never ended by an ar gument but by tact, diplomacy , conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person’ s viewpoint.