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

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

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.

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

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.