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.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change