As an author, the question, "May I quote you?" is a humbling request and a great compliment. For anyone who is in search of leadership excellence a good quote is fuel for you and your team.

It's amazing how a short, simple quotation can quickly provide perspective, inspiration, comfort, motivation or insight. What a wonderful return for our invested time--take 10 seconds each morning to read a new quote and your day, maybe even our world, is changed.

There are just about as many definitions of teamwork as there are teams. The definition I like is "Teamwork is connected independence."

The Hoover Dam Bypass perfectly illustrates the term "connected independence." Take a look at this in-progress photo before its completion in 2010. What do you think?

How do YOU capture a moment?  Do you take a mental picture in your mind or do you take it digitally like these concert fans in the photo?

At nearly every concert or event you can see as many phones recording photo or videos of moment as you can see eyes watching it. It's great to have the technology to capture our moments in real time. However, sometimes we are so busy digitally capturing an event for later that we forget to emotionally and viscerally capture it. We lose the present moment by trying to preserve it for the future.