The manager administers; the leader innovates.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

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

A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations