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“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” – W. Edwards Deming As leaders we spent a lot of time talking about how much we work on change, how [...]

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower I was fortunate enough to be having a conversation with two great clients [...]

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.” – David Brin One of the more frustrating parts of what I do for a [...]

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand.  The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard One of the most important things an [...]

“If you surround yourself with the smartest people you can find, people will think you’re a lot smarter than you are.  Only insecure people think this works the other way.” – Noah Callahan-Bever [...]

“There was no such thing as luck.  Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity.  More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.” – [...]

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.” – Sydney Smith [...]

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell Sometimes in our businesses and in our personal lives we get very [...]

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” – J. Paul Getty One of the most valued things in our world is experience.  We often talk about how experience helped us get [...]

“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.” – Armistead Maupin I’ve always like this quote, in spite of (or maybe because of) the fact [...]