Sublime

Leaders need confidants, people who “will tell you what you do not want to hear and cannot hear from anyone else, people in whom you can confide without having your revelations spill back into the work arena.”

That is why we chose to express our mission in the form of a question: will we have Jewish grandchildren?

In one of the most haunting passages of his masterwork, Democracy in America, he says that democracies are at risk of a completely new form of oppression for which there is no precedent in the past. It will happen, he says, when people exist solely in and for themselves, leaving the pursuit of the common good to the government. This is what life

When it comes to leadership, even non-verbal cues are important. Leaders, at least in public, must project confidence even if inwardly they are full of doubts and hesitations. If they betray their private fears in word or gesture, they risk demoralising the group.

It is the task of a leader to empower, but it is also his or her task to inspire. That

Look down at the difficulties and you can give way to despair. The only way to sustain energies, individual or collective, is to turn our gaze up towards the far horizon of hope.

When we follow our particular passions and gifts, we contribute to the world what only we can give.

The ethic of responsibility is the best answer I know to the meaning and meaningfulness of a life.

Those who have the larger picture take more pride in their labour, and work harder and better. Great leaders communicate a vision.