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“Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.” – Anonymous I’ve been fortunate over the past few weeks to spend a lot of time with some really great business leaders thinking [...]

“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 [...]

“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 [...]

“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 [...]

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.” – Steve Jobs One of the things [...]

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe I’m going to at least moderately break on of my own personal rules today. I [...]

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” – Winston Churchill We are an accomplishment-oriented society. At work we receive praise for “getting things done”. [...]

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso We all procrastinate. Some of us admit it, some of us don’t, but we all do it. We could do something [...]

“If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – John D. Rockefeller, Jr. I’ve had a number of conversations lately that [...]

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn There are a lot of leaders out there who [...]