The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.