The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

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

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

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."

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