Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.