The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.