The higher you climb, the more your success depends on making other people successful. Leaders are judged by what their followers achieve. Leadership is elevating individuals to do more than they thought possible and groups to do more than their members could independently.

In job interviews and college admissions, we focus too much on what candidates have accomplished, and too little on what obstacles they've overcome. The true measure of people's potential is not the height of the peak they've reached, but how far they've climbed to get there.