Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.

What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.