I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. What starts to happen is like exercise, the pain goes away. It starts to get easier and the weight starts to get lighter and people start to notice a difference in you and you start to notice a difference in yourself. You find your ability to make decisions is easier; you find you are inspired more often. You find your success increases. You find that your random moments when you're in the flow are no longer random and you can control them. Other people notice the difference.
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.
Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.
So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.
Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
Leadership is like parenting.
We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success
Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.
The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.
When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.
The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.
If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.
I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.