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

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.