Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know.

Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.

Collaboration is an inside-out mindset. It has to start on the inside, with the Heart.

When your heart is right, you want to bring out the best in others.

In order for collaboration to take place, managers must give up their silos and their perceptions of power.

Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

I have the most conservative position.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.

The nature of bad news affects the teller.