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

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

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

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

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.

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."