What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.