Don't solve problems. Pursue opportunities.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.