A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs

Most people in big companies are administered, not led. They are treated as personnel, not people.

If people are coming to work excited...if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly...if they're having fun...if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings...then somewhere you have a leader.

The dogma right now is it is the waterfowl _ ducks, sandpipers, gulls, plovers _ essentially any bird that is water-associated. I will predict that that dogma will eventually fall by the wayside. I will guess that what we will eventually see is that avian influenza is much more widely distributed among birds and that land birds also play a significant role in the picture.

Take, for example, some of the people at Enron, ... It should be that you are developing your leadership skills throughout your education.

Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.