In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

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

Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

Competent people are the most resistant to change