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.

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.

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

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

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.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

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