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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Do what you say you will do.