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“Achieving something that’s never been done before starts with challenging yourself to do things that you’ve never done before.” – Melinda Gates Here’s the least original statement of the year: [...]

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb The more I’ve learned about leaders & their businesses (not to mention myself), the [...]

“ ‘I must do something’ will always solve more problems than ‘Something must be done’. “ – Anonymous Last week in this space the topic was the fact that people talk a good game about change, but [...]

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” – Henry Ford I’ve been reminded over the past couple of weeks how difficult change is. That’s not any kind of [...]

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt Someone I’ve been fortunate to work with over the past 5 years asked me last week asked me how I define [...]

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your [...]

“…Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney This blog might sound like a repeat (of this, or this, or maybe even this) but it just keeps coming up time and [...]

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch Being a human being presents a number of challenges and interesting situations. One of those is the reality that most people [...]

“It’s a bad plan that admits of no modification.” – Publilius Syrus One of the parts of my career I enjoy the most is helping organizations plan for their future. One of the parts that’s less [...]

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G. Jung If I asked you to list capabilities that are critical for leaders to have here in the [...]