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.

Do what you say you will do.

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.

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

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.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

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