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.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

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

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

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.