The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

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.

People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic, as they proceed from one challenge and crisis to the next.

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

The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.