To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
When we can communicate from the inside out, we’re talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.
Don’t wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.
Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you’ll never have to work again.
All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.
Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.
All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
I’d rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
It’s always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
Like a good parent can’t also be his child’s best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn’t set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.