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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

Leadership is something I was born with.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.