“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” – Archibald MacLeish It’s an unfortunate part of the human condition that we make [...]
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Lao Tzu It’s not groundbreaking to suggest that leaders need to always be thinking about the future. Everybody knows that [...]
“You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by.” – Nicholas Sparks [...]
“To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.” – Sydney Smith I think it’s [...]
“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it’s the fast fish which eats the slow fish.” – Klaus Schwab The phrase “Bigger is Better” has been taken as gospel by most of [...]
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” – J.R.R. Tolkien We spend a lot of time as organizations (hopefully) talking about the future. And, to most [...]
“There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.” – David Mahoney I had a really engaging day recently with the management team of a small but [...]
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – Gen. Eric Shinseki If you can get past the disaster that his career became over the past few years, Shinseki’s quote is [...]
“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.” – Masaru Ibuka I was fortunate enough last week to attend a conference where one of the speakers was [...]
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali We spend a lot of time in this space talking about change. How much & how [...]
