If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Successful leaders are great askers

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

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

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.