TheChangeAdvantage – Page 17

There’s No Time Like Now

“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn Most of them are too polite to say it, but I would guess that the majority of leaders I’m fortunate enough to work with get sick of me talking about how they use their time. … Read more

How Can You Use This?

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde Right now it’s pretty easy to focus on what’s going wrong. Maybe that’s always easy for a lot of people, but it feels worse than usual. The past eighteen or so months have seemed like a nonstop parade of problems. … Read more

You May Choose Failure

“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” – W. Edwards Deming For the past couple of weeks in this space, the topic has been change – how we can’t keep doing the same things we’ve been doing, even if they’ve worked in the past, and how if we’re feeling overwhelmed by that … Read more

Little + Little = Big

“The man who moves mountains begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius Last week in this space the topic was change and the idea that regardless of how successful things have been in the past, we still need to be continually changing. I didn’t hear from anyone who disagreed; however, I did hear from … Read more

No More of the Same

“All failure is failure to adapt; all success is successful adaptation.” – Max McKeown I recently had the opportunity to work with a 100+ year-old business that was thinking about leadership. The company President of 30+ years was retiring, and the board of directors was beginning the search for the next President. The company had … Read more

What About You?

“‘I must do something’ will always solve more problems than ‘Something must be done’.” – Anonymous We live in a chaotic world. Between global pandemics, economic turmoil, racial issues, environmental challenges, it seems like there’s no end to the obstacles we face. And that’s just the worldwide stuff. There are literally dozens of issues that … Read more

What Do You Actually Want?

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn People are interesting creatures. We like to talk about things like excellence, work ethic, success, etc. We say we want those kinds of things, and that those are the kinds of things you should … Read more

Make A Choice

“There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.” – David Mahoney I recently was chatting with a business leader who mentioned that they were trying to fill a key vacancy among their leadership team. They had three good candidates, but they spent weeks agonizing over … Read more

Good and Bad

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” – Frederick Buechner Last week in this space we talked about finding your passion and then spending your energy following it. If you’re not doing what you’re passionate about, it’s physically impossible to be the best you there is. You just won’t … Read more

What Makes You Alive?

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman I was recently speaking with a group of leaders about one of everybody’s favorite topics, time management. Each person had a different … Read more

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