Our Tendency To Create Heroes Rarely Jibes

This Is More Than Just Having A Vision. You Can See The Difference In The Often-cited Way In Which Steve Jobs Brought In John Sculley To Take Over Apple. At The Time, Sculley Was Destined To Be The Head Of Pepsico. The Clincher Came When Jobs Asked Him, "how Many More Years Of Your Life Do You Want To Spend Making Colored Water When You Can Have An Opportunity To Come Here And Change The World?"

A Leader Is Someone Whose Actions Have The Most Profound Consequences On Other People's Lives, For Better Or Worse, Sometime Forever And Ever.

If You're The Leader, You've Got To Give Up Your Omniscient And Omnipotent Fantasies - That You Know And Must Do Everything. Learn How To Abandon Your Ego To The Talents Of Others.

Just As No Great Painting Has Ever Been Created By A Committee, No Great Vision Has Ever Emerged From The Herd.

The Leaders I Met, Whatever Walk Of Life They Were From, Whatever Institutions They Were Presiding Over, Always Referred Back To The Same Failure Something That Happened To Them That Was Personally Difficult, Even Traumatic, Something That Made Them Feel That Desperate Sense Of Hitting Bottom-as Something They Thought Was Almost A Necessity. It's As If At That Moment The Iron Entered Their Soul; That Moment Created The Resilience That Leaders Need.