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

Possess the "Nobel Factor": Possess and constantly demonstrate optimism, faith, and hope. They create choices. I am reminded of an ancient Chinese proverb: "That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change; but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."

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

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

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

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.