“When work relationships are reciprocal, ethical leadership emerges for both the executive and the participant unless the executive is trying to control the participant.”

“... Bezos personifies a new breed of executive that arose with the emergence of the game-changing technologies in the 1980s and 1990s ... a 'productive narcissist'. ... These executives have big enough egos to make up seemingly random rules of business leadership. However, unlike other narcissists, they get the job done.”

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

“Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion. ”

“No relationship is absolutely reciprocal. Sometimes, when couples try to split everything in half, they discover that the relationship is not a partnership but a bean counting exercise. Striving for reciprocity in a relationship can be unhealthy.”

“Leadership is finding your voice,inspiring others to find their voice,empowering people and executing actions that get the world better.”