Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
