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“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Right now, on an almost daily [...]

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” – John E. Southard As we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in my part of of the world, [...]

“Time is more value than money.  You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn Most of them are too polite to say it, but I would guess that the majority of leaders I’m [...]

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde Right now it’s pretty easy to focus on what’s going wrong.  Maybe that’s always easy for a lot of people, but it [...]

“It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.” – W. Edwards Deming For the past couple of weeks in this space, the topic has been change – how we can’t keep doing the same things [...]

“The man who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius  Last week in this space the topic was change and the idea that regardless of how successful things have been in [...]

“All failure is failure to adapt; all success is successful adaptation.” – Max McKeown I recently had the opportunity to work with a 100+ year-old business that was thinking about leadership.  [...]

“‘I must do something’ will always solve more problems than ‘Something must be done’.” – Anonymous We live in a chaotic world.  Between global pandemics, economic turmoil, racial issues, [...]

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way.  If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn People are interesting creatures.  We like to talk about things like excellence, work [...]

“There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.” – David Mahoney I recently was chatting with a business leader who mentioned that they were trying to fill [...]