"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find...

“Done is better than perfect.” Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as...

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.” Don Marquis “The test of...

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” Oscar Wilde...

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you...

“I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.” Robin Williams “Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” Plato Do you work in a...

"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Morpheus “Power is the ability to get things...

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” Alexander the Great “The problem...

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”  Niccolo Machiavelli “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is...

“Study the past if you would define the future.” Confucius “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that...

“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.” Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan “The grass...

A Pig and a Chicken are walking down the road. The Chicken says: "Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!" Pig replies:...

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ” Will Rogers For...

Hope is not a strategy: Rudy Giuliani He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is battle slain Can never...

“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” Tacitus “I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.” ...

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” William G.T. Shedd Projects must move forward in the face of risk! So...

As Maimonides said: “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision”. However, those words are seldom spoken at a...

Or as Dan Quayle said: “If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure!” Qualitative Risk Analysis is the method used by the vast...

On February 12, 2002, Donald Rumsfeld held a DoD news briefing where he said the following: “Reports that say that something hasn't...

Risk Management is very popular these days! The headlines have been filled with stories about high profile project failures. When the...