Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd.

INTENTIONS + ACTION = WILL

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.