Top Highlights

• Leadership success requires continual change, improvement, and sacrifice. As philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something."
• Harry -A. Overstreet said, "The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate." If no one is following you, you're not a leader.
• English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said, "To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
• Former PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Craig Weatherup acknowledges, "People will tolerate honest mistakes, but if you violate their trust you will find it very difficult to ever regain their confidence. That is one reason that you need to treat trust as your most precious asset. You may fool your boss, but you can never fool your colleagues or subordinat...
• Your history of successes and failures is a little like earning or spending "pocket change." Each time you make a good leadership decision, it puts changeinto your pocket. Each time you make a poor one, you have to pay out some of your change to the people.Every leader begins with a certain amount of change in his pocket when he starts in a new lea...