Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.