In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace up his skates and whirl around the ice rink, while visionary buildings come to life and dance in his head.

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.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.