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.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

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

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.