Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely?all your skills, gifts, and energies?in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming.