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

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

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

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