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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” – Flannery O’Connor I recently conducted a workshop for a group of business people whose industry is in the midst of very [...]

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden An organization I spend a lot of time with recently took a few hours to work through a change success model, the idea being [...]

“We cannot become what we need to be without changing who we are.” – Max DePree Oftentimes as leaders we fail to see the need for change in our organizations.  Sometimes, though, we look at [...]

“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.” – [...]

“Strategic planning is worthless – unless there is first a strategic vision.” – John Naisbitt In last week’s post I talked about how important it is to plan, and a few key things that make up [...]

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight Eisenhower I wouldn’t necessarily agree that plans are useless, but I think what [...]

“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 [...]

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.” – Josh Billings One of the more interesting exercises we use when talking about growth [...]

“Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau I like that quote.  I wish I had a way of measuring how much time we spend in our [...]

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go.  You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey Last week I spent part of a day visiting with a leadership group [...]