Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

Seek people who seek solutions.

I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.

I guess I'd rather be loved than respected.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.