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Unless you know where you’re going, and why, you cannot possibly get there.

Leadership courses can only teach skills. They can’t teach character or vision – and indeed they don’t even try. Developing character and vision is the way leaders invent themselves.

…the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts, and energies – in order to make your vision manifest.

Mistakes – missteps – are necessary for actualizing your vision, and necessary steps toward success.

…vision, like the world itself, is dynamic, not static, and must be renewed, adapted, adjusted. And when it becomes too dim, it must be abandoned and replaced.

Ruthless management may succeed in holding change at bay for a while, but only visionary leadership will succeed over time.

When visionary leadership is combined with sound business practices, the results can be success that lasts.

All organizations, especially those that are growing, walk a tightrope between stability and change, tradition and revision.

Few organizations… welcome outside supervision and correction.

If those in power prefer to maintain their blind spots at all costs, then impartial review boards must improve that vision – against their will, if it comes to that.