Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

I keep my hope alive.

There's still a question I must put to you, " said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.