The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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

Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

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.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

If great teams don't have an "enemy," they create one for themselves because, as former Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta pointed out, "you can't have a war without one."