A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.