Categories

Positive emotions like enthusiasm, hope, and excitement provide the energy to sustain the inevitable hard knocks we all experience along the way.

I am successful to the degree that who I am and what I live are in alignment.

Real thinking occurs only when everyone is engaged in exploring different viewpoints.

…Let’s face it. The world will not be managed. Life is curly. Don’t try to straighten it.

If urgency drops sufficiently and momentum is lost, pushing complacency away a second time can be much more difficult than it was the first.

…with success comes a major problem: keeping up the sense of urgency needed to accomplish a bigger goal or to sustain a high level of performance over time.

…the goals need to be high enough that they cannot possibly be accomplished through business as usual.

Because true urgency has this strong element of now, it can be easy to forget the time frame into which large changes and achievements fit.

Organizations that do survive have to succeed in pleasing some combination of investors, clients, or the world at large.

Before any of us can hope to engage others in wonderfully fierce conversations, we must engage ourselves in a dialogue so real, so sweet, so fierce with silences that we can hear own heartbeat.