Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

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.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.

Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.