At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I like a good cliche because it reminds you that much of management practice boils down to things you need to do but often forget or fail to do often enough.

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

I grew up in a very high-achieving family. I have a brother who's a Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon. My other brother is a two-time Olympian, fifth-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good.

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.