The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Replace dabbling with laser-beam
focus on something important.

A wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.

They don't have the same focus on a leader that all of the other parties have. If we're going to have a real democracy, we're going to have to stop this great leader stuff, we have to stop this focus on one ? usually man ? to lead a party, and get leadership from everyone.