Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

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

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.