If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Discipline is consistency of action.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.