When your product keeps planes in the air, seals Army tanks from biohazards, and enables exploration companies to drill oil and gas wells, quality control matters.

As I was driving to the airport the other morning, I couldn’t help but notice that highway driving has a lot in common with leadership.

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Born in the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England, in 1643 (by today’s calendar), the only son of prosperous farmer Isaac Newton, this baby of the same name was premature, tiny, weak, and not expected to live.