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.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

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.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.