It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are. If you view leadership as a bag of manipulative tricks or charismatic behaviors to advance your own personal interest, then people have every right to be cynical. But if your leadership flows first and foremost from inner character and integrity of ambition, then you can justly ask people to lend themselves to your organization and its mission.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Key to the societal significance of tomorrow's leaders is the way they embrace the totality of leadership, not just including 'my organization' but reaching beyond the walls as well.

Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.