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.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.