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What was the point of that evaluation?

Honestly, I still have no idea how I’m really doing.

It was June 18, 1940. France had fallen to Nazi Germany in less than six weeks. And now Hitler eyed an invasion of Great Britain.

“What people most want from work is to be able to come in and work with the right team of people—colleagues they trust and admire—and to focus like crazy on doing a great job together.”

At a press conference in late October 2002, following a tough Week 8 loss to the Cleveland Browns, New York Jets head coach, Herm Edwards, gave his now-famous monologue.

“One thing about Sam is that you always know exactly where you stand with him.”

“The main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”― Angela Duckworth, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance”

"Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."—Ronald Reagan

“The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.”

A few days after he took over as interim head football coach at Clemson University in the middle of the 2008 season, the (then) 38-year-old Dabo Swinney, with no head coaching experience, attended a breakfast with the board of trustees that would set the tone for the championship program he intended to build.

Simon Sinek, author of the perennial bestseller “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Action,” put it best when he said, “Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.”