Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

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

Successful leaders are great askers

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.