Book Titles

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Maturity is important to a leader because leading is not simply showing the way or issuing orders.

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following – learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful.

Integrity is the basis of trust, which is not as much an ingredient of leadership as it is a product. It is the one quality that cannot be acquired, but must be earned.

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure, but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

…true leaders are not born, but made, and usually self-made. Leaders invent themselves.

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.

Good leaders engage the world. Bad leaders entrap it, or try.

True understanding derives from engagement and from the full deployment of ourselves.

Leaders have nothing but themselves to work with.