Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.

What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.