In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What’s Right.
The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.
We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?
Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals.
Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integrity is essential.
No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.