How to be a good leader...

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."  -Antoine de Saint Exupery

Hole versus asshole :)

“It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!”
-Dan Jacobs (Apple)

Leadership Lesson 101

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.

Leadership by Sheryl Sandberg

I really like this quote by Sheryl Sandberg (COO Facebook) "Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible." More at, http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/24/facebook-sandberg-build-business/

Two nice quotes about presentations and speeches

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Mark Twain on Whisky

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." -Mark Twain

Be yourself...

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde