The Purpose Of Bureaucracy Is To Compensate

Consider The Idea That Charisma Can Be As Much A Liability As An Asset. Your Strength Of Personality Can Sow The Seeds Of Problems, When People Filter The Brutal Facts From You.

The Only Way To Deliver To The People Who Are Achieving Is To Not Burden Them With The People Who Are Not Achieving.

...the Question, Why Try For Greatness? Would Seem Almost Tautological. If You're Doing Something You Care That Much About, And You Believe In Its Purpose Deeply Enough, Then It Is Impossible To Imagine Not Trying To Make It Great. It's Just A Given.

Don't Take Care Of Your Career. Take Care Of Your People. They Will Take Care Of Your Career.

I've Never Found An Important Decision Made By A Great Organization That Was Made At A Point Of Unanimity. Significant Decisions Carry Risks And Inevitably Some Will Oppose It. In These Settings, The Great Legislative Leader Must Be Artful In Handling Uncomfortable Decisions, And This Requires Rigor.