We as conservative intellectuals should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Good business leaders create a vision articulate the vision passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character leadership creativity perseverance.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth goodness beauty love and compassion and also intuition creativity insight and focused attention.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.