Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.