Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs

If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings...then somewhere you have a leader.

One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.

Consultants are people who borrow your watch and tell you what time it is, and then walk off with the watch.