If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.