Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.

To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.