Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

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

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.