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.

Judgment without character is expediency... or worse.

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's present and when it's not.

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

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