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

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

The future has no shelf life