Attention is the currency of leadership.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

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.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.