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

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

If a church is good at making disciples it will be good at making leaders because in the end, a good spiritual formation plan will lead to an accelerated spiritual multiplication.

There are very, very few brands that will be brave enough to really, completely take a step back and not to try and control what is considered beautiful.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

The liberal posture really requires a willingness to give to others, and that works, as I say, when you have an expanding pie. But if you don't have an expanding pie, everyone starts hunkering down.