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The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary human beings to do extraordinary things. It is a means to make strengths productive and weaknesses irrelevant.

…the purpose of reviewing your mistakes isn’t to shame your past self. It’s to educate your future self.

Collective intelligence rises as team members recognize one another’s strengths, develop strategies for leveraging them, and motivate one another to align their efforts in pursuit of a shared purpose.

Both contemporary psychological research and age-old common sense suggest that a feeling of purpose improves a person’s experience of life.

…as individuals age, they place greater emphasis in their own lives on qualities they might have neglected in the rush to build careers and raise families: purpose, intrinsic motivation, and meaning.

…our ability to sustain the memory of a skill… over time and distance and then replicate the behavior for one’s own purposes, is a crucial and uniquely human capacity.

To do something with intention means to do it thoughtfully, with clear purpose and an eye on the desired result.

Sometimes, just by pretending to be a better person than you are, you end up being that better person, for all intents and purposes.

Conflict prompts disappointment, followed by perspective and self-examination, and ultimately another attempt with a renewed sense of purpose.

Great leaders don’t want the attention, but they use it. They use it to unite the tribe and to reinforce its sense of purpose.