Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

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."

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.