Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.