“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Alan Alda As humans, we have a number of needs. Two of our more basic needs are safety and security. We want to be safe, comfortable, feel like no one’s going to … Read more
“Take action. Success is not guaranteed, but inaction will guarantee failure.” – Ken Poirot There are so many opportunities to take action in today’s world that sometimes we do nothing. A hundred things seem to be coming our way at any given moment. Maybe we’re overwhelmed, or maybe we’re afraid to fail or make the … Read more
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt As leaders we all have difficult decisions to make. We’re faced with seemingly endless combinations of opportunities, threats, fires to … Read more
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark There’s a fine line to walk between being satisfied with what you have and being satisfied with what you have. And that isn’t a typo. It’s a fact of life … Read more
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Joe Sabah This has been discussed in this space recently (here and here), but it’s worth saying again. There are so many situations where we as organizations and leaders of organizations have opportunities to be great, or to … Read more
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland Usually, at some point when we’re kids, we hear an adult say some version of “You can be anything you want when you grow up.” And we believe that. So when you ask kids what they’re going … Read more
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn I have a lot of conversations with business leaders that start off pretty well and then fall apart. They start off well when leaders are telling me what they have in mind … Read more
“I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.” – Jane Wagner I have a good friend who regularly talks about companies having ‘groundhog years’. What he means is … Read more
“Sometimes if you want to see change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.” – Clint Eastwood We talk a lot in this space about change. A lot of the things I post are intended to motivate people to make change, or to give some examples about how change might … Read more
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela I had a meeting recently with a client who made me feel bad about myself. I won’t share every detail, but the summary would be this: … Read more
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