If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.

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.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.