Your role as team leader is the most important role in any company. And who your company chooses to make team leader is the most important decision it ever makes.

Your responsibility is to take seriously the uniqueness of your uniqueness, and design the most intelligent, the most honest, and the most effective ways to volunteer it to the rest of us.

You won’t ever ‘do only what you love.’ But you can, every single day, find some activity or situation or moment or event that you love. It might be the thinnest of red threads, but you can find it.

How are you feeling right now in your job? Join me and Harvard Business Review for an interactive event, How to Find A Career You Love. Register now for June 22: events.bizzabo.com/HBR062223?utm_…

Love matters, but you don’t need to love all you do. You just need to find the love in what you do. Even a little love goes a long, long way.

No two people who excel at the same job achieve excellence in the same way.

Your weaknesses need to be dealt with, but your instinctive strengths are where you will experience exceptional growth...

Pay close attention to other people’s ‘reactions.’ These reactions will be excellent raw material to help you understand the dent you are making in the world. When someone’s reaction wasn’t quite what you wanted, honor their reaction and then think through which actions of yours

When it comes to your loves, you have all the answers. No one else has any. When it comes to your loves, you are the only genius.

At some point in your career, you are going to want to honor the path you have chosen – the craft you have chosen – by giving it your extended, undivided attention. Distraction is the enemy of excellence.

These institutions – high school, college, work - which supposedly are set up to help you give off your best, are in fact designed to distract your attention from your unique loves and loathes, and instead convince you that there’s nothing enduringly unique about you. They’re

Virtually any job is awful and soul-destroying, if it is being done by a person who doesn’t find love in it.

Fear itself is not the thing to be afraid of. It’s not fear which causes the problems in your life. It’s what fear degrades into when you shun it.

In any job, sustained excellence without love is impossible. Love isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity.

Most people bomb interviews for one reason: They try to be someone they're not. After 25 years of studying human strengths, I can tell you—the biggest mistake isn't a weak handshake or forgetting to ask questions. It's showing up as a generic version of yourself. Here's what

After 25 years of studying great managers, here's what separates the best from the rest: They care more about your growth than their own convenience. At Gallup, we'd ask management candidates: "Would you rather do a job yourself or be responsible for other people's work?" The

Goals are broken. You set them in January and ignore them until December. Real work is what's happening right now. It's specific, it changes fast, and it makes you feel trusted. Goals can be vague concepts that leave you feeling like a small piece in another person’s machine.