There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

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

My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.