Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

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

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.