In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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.

Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.