I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on.

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What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

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The capacity to create a compelling vision and translate it into action and sustain it.

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Leaders are Social architects.

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Empowerment is the collective effort of leadership.

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Leadership can be felt throughout an organization. It gives pace and energy to the work and empowers the workforce.

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Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.

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The leader...is the translator, facilitator, the articulating point between the group's genius, who is doing great things, producing big and innovative ideas, and the public, the market.

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Leaders articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid, then they invent images, metaphors, and models that provide a focus for new attention.

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Leaders are almost like midwives of ideas. They really understand what is going on. You know when you come to them with an idea, they aren't going to just say, 'Well, that's nice, and maybe we can use that.'

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