Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.

You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.

Leaders move among the various stages each day. But effective leaders move among the right stages at the right times.

In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.

We need leaders who can meet and adapt to new challenges, build strategic partnerships, build and sustain human capital organizations, and have the courage to act and react to the challenges

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

• Plan in decades• Think in years• Work in months• Count in days• Live in the moment

Someone once told me that, when your operations are not good, you should not talk strategy," says Iyer. "Fair enough. But the opposite is also true. If operations are good, then you must talk strategy.

What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.