Book Titles

…no matter how collaborative our organizations, someone still needs to choreograph the players and make final decisions.

So let’s admit it: in a nation, in a world, as complex and fluid as ours, we cannot function without leaders.

Unfortunately, looking at our own context is as difficult for us as it is for fish to look at water.

The tension is as fierce today as it has ever been. Whenever upward mobility and good citizenship diverge, we have less and less in common, and less and less that is good.

…political regimes come and go, and ideologies wax and wane, but – human nature being what it is, our basic needs are economic, not political.

…the new bottom line is that there is no bottom line – there aren’t any lines, much less limits or logic.

Life on this turbulent, complex planet is no longer linear and sequential, one thing logically leading to another. It is spontaneous, contrary, unexpected, and ambiguous.

…the current climate is self-perpetuating because it has created an entire generation of managers in its own image.

The first step in becoming a leader, then, is to recognize the context for what it is – a breaker, not a maker; a trap, not a launching pad; an end, not a beginning – and declare your independence.

…it is not enough for a leader to do things right; he must do the right thing.