Leadership

Great necessities call out great virtues. We live in a time of great necessities — a time when we cannot avoid the burdens of global leadership.

If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

It was too late for 'talk-teaching' — 'do-teaching would be a lot faster.'

Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them. Smart people will challenge you to think harder and in entirely different ways.

Find allies rather than adorers. Adorers are people who fawn over you but never tell you when you screw up. Instead, seek out allies who are honest with you when you feel you are not living up to your potential.

You should also know there are a lot of really mean, stupid bosses out there. But there are also some really good ones that do good things.

Learn humility and wisdom when you stumble, because it will help you when you succeed.

A Conscious Business has a deeper purpose beyond only making profits. Just like individual people, by following their hearts, can discover their own sense of deeper purpose, so can the business enterprise.

The barrier to change is not too little caring. It is too much complexity.

We are all mortal. What divides us is the use we make of the time and opportunities we have.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond preparing to doing.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.