Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.