Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

My job is to preach and preach and preach.

Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.

If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.