Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.