Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

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

I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.