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The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.