Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

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

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

The future has no shelf life

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.