Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

The status quo sucks.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.