The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

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

Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right