Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.

If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.