Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

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

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.