Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

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."

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.