Alan, those are brilliant observations. Did you really think those up on the spot because I spend quite a bit of time thinking about leadership yet I can pretty much guarantee you that my thoughts would be hardly worth remembering much less writing down if I were put in a similar situation.  ;-)

Each point is profound in its own way and the first one is kind of a corollary to one of my thoughts in a book I'm currently working on, which is; Never hire someone you wouldn't work for. It has a counterintuitive feel to it but makes perfect sense when you really explore the idea.