It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.