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.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

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.

Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

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

Attention is the currency of leadership.

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.