Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

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.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.