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.

Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

One either meets or one works.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities.

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.