Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

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

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Almost without exception, members of great groups see themselves as winning underdogs, as a feisty David hurling fresh ideas at a big, backward-looking Goliath. They always have an "enemy."

That's important to remember: it's not just a collection of great individuals but a group of people who enjoy playing in the sandbox, thoroughly enjoying collaborative problem solving.