While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

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

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The future has no shelf life

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.