The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

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

When things go awry, trust powers the generators until the problem is fixed.

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.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

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

If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.