Attention is the currency of leadership.

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

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

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.