Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Nothing helps make a leader more approachable than admitting your struggles, screw-ups and behind-the-scenes thinking on hard calls. If the leader makes this a priority, the whole company will be more open and methodical learning from failure.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.