“The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”

“Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.”

“If youre a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you dont. You will do whatever you have to do to increase you...”

“Its the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where theyre not quite telling each other the truth and theyre not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate eac...”

“It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate ...”

“A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who does not tell you to follow him, will sit in the company of his followers.”

“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”

“I discovered that all these rulers were men. What they had in common was an avaricious and distorted personality, a never-ending appetite for money, sex and unlimited power. They were men who sowed...”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”