Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

Neotony is a metaphor for the quality of life - the gift - that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all the marvelous undiscovered things to come.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.