Leadership is learning. Whatever else leaders do, their primary role is to keep learning and to facilitate the learning of those around them.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment — independent will — that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time.

If I am through learning, I am through.