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.

Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

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

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?