His first rule of building a healthy organization: Build and maintain a cohesive leadership team.
Nothing blesses a senior leader more than watching younger leaders around him / her getting better!
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
When you also challenge yourself by taking risks, you may be surprised to find leadership abilities you did not know you had.
The archenemy of good leadership is short-term thinking.
Remember … People are watching you. And, we lead by example … one way or the other.
The so called “born leader” is a fiction invented by “born followers.” Leadership is not a gift at birth; it is an award for growing up to full moral stature. It is the only award a person must win every day. The prize is the respect of others earned by the disciplines that generate self-respect.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.