This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?"

Those who take risks walk the high wire with no fear of falling.

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

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

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

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.