Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.