“Do you really believe in the decisive role of the individual in history?” “Well, I think it’s a question that can’t be proven or disproven, unless we restart time, kill off a few great men, and see how history proceeds. Of course, you can’t rule out the possibility that the course of history was determined by the rivers carved out and dammed up by

Leaders can be magnified – or diminished – by the qualities of those around them.

There are figures who hold positions of authority – prime ministers, presidents, CEOs – who may not be leaders at all. They may have the power to force people to do what they say, but they have no followers. They excite no admiration. They inspire no emulation. And there may be leaders who hold no official position at all but who are consulted for

Leadership is the ability to move something in a direction that the cultural forces are not already taking things