Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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

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.

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.