Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.