Phase I is Preparing for Leadership, where leaders develop through education and studying, as well as extracurricular experiences and early work as individual contributors.

One conversation at a time, you are building, destroying, or flatlining your relationships.

With each passing obstacle, there is a lesson to learn. Remember, it's not the destination, but the journey that counts.

People in authority should make pushing back and giving feedback legitimate.

Artists have been shunned or shamed for embracing them, but that’s because these truths work. They subvert the dominant power structure while at the same time they enable us to make things better for the people we seek to serve.

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Loss avoidance is the hallmark of defensive investing. For that reason, it’s essential that we understand risk and limit it wherever possible.

The joy I obtained as a result of this action was not necessarily great or savage, but the suffering which ensued was staggering—so far surpassing what I had imagined that even describing it as “horrendous” would not quite cover it.

Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we’re open to learn.

If you want business advice, you need to go to someone who has run a business over an extended period of time, and I’m talking about a real operating business, one that sells something other than accredited, professional expertise.