God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

Being a leader requires: Have a valid vision: first, leaders must appreciate their reality (what they believe is possible) and then consider the big things.

If the leader of the organization can’t clearly articulate WHY the organization exists in terms beyond its products or services, then how does he expect the employees to know WHY to come to work?

Becoming more adult means having an inner nurturant parent who supervises our unruly inner child, protects our endangered inner child, and comforts our scared inner child.

None of us controls the circumstances in our lives, but we control how we show up and how hard we try.

Meetings are vital to any organization—good meetings deliver clarity and alignment while bad meetings are wasteful and frustrating. In his earlier book, Death by Meeting, Lencioni explained (via a fable) 4 types of meetings that any healthy organization should have: daily check-ins, weekly tactical meetings, monthly/ad-hoc topical meetings, and quarterly off-site reviews.

Create a culture that values honesty and integrity

In life it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It only matters what you do with what you've been given. And the only way you'll do something spectacular is by using it all to your advantage.

Systems will override rhetoric every day of the week.

Transformational leadership enables the practices that correlate with high performance, and it also supports effective communication and collaboration between team members in pursuit of organizational goals.