Leaders Know The Importance Of Having Someone

A New Leader Has To Be Able To Change An Organization That Is Dreamless, Soulless And Visionless... Someone's Got To Make A Wake Up Call.

The Opposite Of Hope Is Despair, And When We Despair, It Is Because We Feel There Are No Choices.

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?"

While Great Leaders May Be As Rare As Great Runners, Great Actors, Or Great Painters, Everyone Has Leadership Potential, Just As Everyone Has Some Ability At Running, Acting, And Painting.

Encourage Dissent: Leaders Should Have Associates Who Have Contrary Views, Who Are Devil's Advocates, "variance Sensors" Who Can Tell Them The Difference Between What Is Expected And What Is Really Happening, Between What They Want To Hear And What They Need To Hear. There Are Too Many Naked Emperors Running Around Today.