If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Expect the best from your people and they will usually deliver but your expectations must be realistic.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.