Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

Successful leaders are great askers

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.