Trust happens when leaders are transparent..

What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers.

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transm….

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to….

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur..

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor..

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted..

I never put myself out there as an employment agency..

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've ha….

I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted exc….

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers..

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more..

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "fa….

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package….

Protecting underperformers always backfires..

Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will….

"Every leader makes mistakes, every leader stumbles and falls. The question with a senior level leader is, does she learn from her mistakes, regroup,….

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?.

When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight..

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others..

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go..