Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

As there is no insignificant work, there is not an insignificant leader. All leaders need training...not just a few.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

We nearly had our asses handed to us in a sling by a bunny rabbit?

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

I think I'm more approachable with long hair. When it's short, I come across as being artsy and weird.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.