Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

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

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.