Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."