Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

The age can be impressed. Anything will be accepted by men if you will but preach it with tremendous enthusiasm, emotion, persuasionnergy and living earnestness.

We spend our years as a tale that is told.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Empathy: Emptying our mind and listening with our whole being

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.