Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.