My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"
Benjamin ZanderI'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.
Benjamin ZanderAs leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.
Benjamin ZanderImagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'
Benjamin Zander