Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.

However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.

Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.