Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

Jeanne is an outstanding retail and management talent who has developed successful brands and programs in both traditional and online retail channels,

No matter how much talent or effort, some things just take time into complete: you can never be a baby in one month by nine women pregnant.