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“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought.” – Bernard [...]

“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” – John Wooden This qualifies as the understatement of the year, but we live in a world that changes at an almost unbelievable rate. It’s at the point [...]

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” – Aristotle Someone recently clued me in to an organization called The Energy Project. If you’re interested, click here to get to their web site. [...]

“Nothing changes if nothing changes.” – Unknown We talk a lot in this space about change & how hard it is for us to change, both individually and organizationally. I had an interesting [...]

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George Patton Not that long ago I was visiting with a local business owner, one we’ve been fortunate enough to work with over the [...]

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” – Winston Churchill As leaders, a big part of our job is thinking about the future. Unfortunately, too often that thinking becomes [...]

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy I was going to start this week’s post talking about a client of [...]

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I feel like I’ve written about belief a lot lately. If you’re sick of it, my apologies. Unfortunately, I keep [...]

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” – Michael Porter We live in a world that likes to measure worth by accomplishments. We’re always talking about what we’ve done, about what [...]

“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer I’m sure some of you reading this [...]