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To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the_x000D__x000D_most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas_x000D__x000D_where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means_x000D__x000D_you'll grow most where you're already strong.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.