When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.

That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.