Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

Think of a crucible as an occasion for real magic, the creation of something more valuable than an alchemist could possibly imagine. In it, the individual is transformed, changed, created anew. He or she grows in ways that change his or her definition of self.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

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