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.

Do what you say you will do.

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

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

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

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.

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.