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?

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.

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.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

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

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.