The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.