If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

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If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing...

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing...

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all...

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all...

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means...

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means...

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species...

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species...

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the...

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the...

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an...

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an...

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do...

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do...

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major...

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major...

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others,...

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others,...

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles...

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles...

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the...

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the...

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store,...

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store,...

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this...

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this...

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill...

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill...

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now...

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now...

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how...

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how...