The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.
If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn’t lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?
When your organization becomes more human, more remarkable, faster on its feet, and more likely to connect directly with customers, it becomes indispensable. The very thing that made your employee a linchpin makes YOU a linchpin.
Everyone is lonely. Connect.
It’s war that makes generals.
You can keep waiting to get plucked from obscurity, or you can learn how to champion your project one person at a time.
1. Your business needs more linchpins. It’s scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you’ll discover that it’s worth the effort.
It’s damaging to build organizations around repetitive faceless work that brings no connection and no joy. As.
The time to look for a new job is when you don’t need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable. Go. Switch. Challenge yourself; get yourself a raise and a promotion. You owe it to your career and your skills.
The typical factory-centric organization places a premium on not-wrong, and spends no time at all weeding out those who don’t start. In the networked economy, the innovation-focused organization has no choice but to obsess about those who don’t start. Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you’ve got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don’t start, you never get a chance.
Strategic quitting is a conscious decision you make based on the choices that are available to you. If you realize you’re at a dead end compared with what you could be investing in, quitting is not only a reasonable choice, it’s a smart one.
If you think the solution is more rules and less humanity, I fear you will be disappointed by the results. Organizations that can bring humanity and flexibility to their interactions with other human beings will thrive.
One day, I’d like to write a book about the worst ads ever run, but my fear is that it would be too long.
Organizations that can bring humanity and flexibility to their interactions with other human beings will thrive. Why.
Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else.
Sonder is defined as that moment when you realize that everyone around you has an internal life as rich and as conflicted as yours.
Focus is a choice. The runner who is concentrating on how much his left toe hurts will be left in the dust by the runner who is focusing on winning. Even if the winner’s toe hurts just as much. Hurt, of course, is a matter of perception. Most of what we think about is. We have a choice about where to aim the lens of our attention.
Or, more accurately, spend all day trying to avoid making a mistake? These are very different things. Defect-free is what people are often in search of. Meeting spec. Blameless.
The fact is, a bigger badge isn’t going to help at all. People aren’t going to follow you because you order them to.
They’re building an asset that has nothing to do with brand and everything to do with their relationship with you.