If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.