There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.