Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

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

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.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

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

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity.