Your title is meaningless compared with the power that you can have when your team trusts you.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see.

When we are right, let’s try to win people gently and tactfully to our way of thinking, and when we are wrong – and that will be surprisingly often, if we are honest with ourselves – let’s admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm.

The end result has been the elimination of populous Native American societies from most temperate areas suitable for European food production and physiology.

Without making the actual attempt, without trial and strife, there can be no true knowledge, no progress, no high achievement, and no legend.

Our practice is to bring a practical empathy to the work, to realize that in our journey to create change, we’re also creating discomfort. For our audience. And for ourselves. And that’s okay.

It is behaviors—ones that can be learned and adopted—that matter for the acquisition of power.

The highest challenge inside organizations, including families, is to set them up and run them in a way that enables each person to inwardly sense his or her innate worth and potential for greatness.

This is a book about the stories we write, and perhaps more importantly, the stories we live. It is the most influential work I have yet encountered on the art, nature, and the very purpose of storytelling. - Bruce Joel Rubin

As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.