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

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

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

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.