Successful leaders are great askers

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.