Part of reparenting yourself means learning how to identify your wants and needs.

Every role has a relationship with family members, work associates, relatives, or friends. To see this vital social dimension empowers us to put people ahead of schedules.

Go to the pain rather than avoid it. If you don’t let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace.

The ONE Thing sits at the heart of success and is the starting point for achieving extraordinary results. Based on research and real-life experience, it’s a big idea about success wrapped in a disarmingly simple package. Explaining it is easy; buying into it can be tough.

Until we master the courage and the skills needed to engage in conversations that help accomplish the goals of our shared civilization, we will move away from greatness, not toward it.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs. It’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

True forgiveness involves forgetting, letting it go, and moving on.

Dependencies — A dependency between two or more parts of a system is only desirable if the dependency is clear and obvious. When it is not clear what code depends on another, even simple changes to the system will take a long time and there would be a high risk of bugs showing up after deploying to production.

You don't need natural talent to be a master; follow the ancestors.

IBM is what it is today for three special reasons. The first reason is that, at the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done.