Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Don't forget to bring your sense of humor to your labor.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

The future has no shelf life

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Successful leaders are great askers

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life