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Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.'

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.