Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.

Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness… But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities...

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.