Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.