Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

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

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

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.

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

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.