That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

"The writer is a man who is always trying to find the truth, the truth about himself, the truth about the world, the truth about life."

True leadership is about making tough decisions today that will benefit future generations.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

Transparency builds trust, and trust builds business.

A story is a way of making the invisible visible.