We live in an extraordinary time.
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
An organsation’s results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.
We don’t realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.
I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
When trust improves, the mood improves.
But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care – which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Hope is the raw material of losers.
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret. These.
Key moods for a powerful team are ambition, acceptance, serenity, respect, membership, pride, camaraderie, and celebration.
Let’s look at selling a car, because if any industry seems to offend in collaboration, it’s the car-selling industry.
In this world, it is only men who are guilty of anything, men of flesh and bones and gravity and sins.