You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes when you write a book, people think you're an expert and that's not always true.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.