Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.