I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution. Votes: 1
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information. Votes: 3 Al Gore
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Votes: 6 Steve Jobs