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.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."