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

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

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

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.

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."