Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.