Effective leadership in a job that includes a complicated set of lateral relationships requires, first, a keen sense of where those relationships are.

needed—because of increased interdependence—is a much larger number of people who have leadership skills, broadly defined.

Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business.

for most people in organizations, a better strategy is to find a partner whom they can trust. Leaders, regardless of “rank,” need a partner to talk to and confide in while going through the often intense phases of change.