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?

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.

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.

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

Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.

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

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?