A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

A true leader never has to put his ‘big boy pants on’ because he’s never taken them off.

Leadership must embody servanthood, for without it leadership will become the embodiment of our selfish agendas. And leadership of that sort will lead us to places that none of us want to go to.

To lead is to put myself below another so that I can lift up another. And true leadership means that I will keep them in that position and me in mine.

Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference

Every life is a canvas and every interaction is a brush, therefore we’d be wise to consider how we handle the paint.