Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

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

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

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.