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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.