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

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

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

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

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

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.