“By pushing people with one arm and loving them with the other, good leaders give their people the confidence needed to embrace change so they can grow faster and win bigger.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“Instead of only scaring our people about the dangers of not taking a plunge, why not also make them feel safe enough to take some risks?”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“The survival instinct responds to jump-or-fry ultimatums. The growth instinct responds to dream-and-fly suggestions.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“When the prospect of change knocks, and your survival instinct immediately barks to scare off the intruder, your growth instinct throws a stick for your survival instinct to chase.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“Freed from the illusions of the narrative machine, we are nonetheless imprisoned by the consequences of its operations so long as a majority of the people give it credence and support. We cannot do this without you. We, perhaps more clearly than anyone else, realize how interdependent we all are and how we are all in this together.”
Source: Essays On The Media
“Start building alternatives, don’t wait for something to happen. You are the early adapters. It is up to you to not merely weave new narratives, you must also show that you are able to live by them. Be bold, be brave, but more than anything, see the beauty and the possibility that can be woven from the current crisis.”
Source: Essays On The Media
“What needed to change was changed, just as old things were destroyed – not by time but by force of human will.”
Source: Coventry: Essays
“Wonder can only be the attitude of a man passing from one stage to another, it can never be a permanently fixed thing.”
Source: Speculations
“Getting older changes everything. I guess change is a lot like the ocean-you can't stop it or control it, but that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the ride.”
“Every limitation begins as a thought. Free your mind, and you will find that the impossible was merely a boundary you hadn’t dared to question.”
Source: The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities