Category Archives: Leadership

Don’t aim…

Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it

– Viktor Frankl

Change…

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable

– Denis Waitley

Democracy…

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people

– Harry E Fosdick

Nobody…

Nobody can force change on anybody else. It has to be experienced. Unless we reinvent ways where paradigm shifts can be experienced by large numbers of people, change will remain a myth

– Eric Trist

Planning…

Planning is frequently misunderstood as making future decisions, but decisions exist only in the present

– Peter F Drucker

Success…

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

– Winston S Churchill

I can…

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through.

– Edward Rickenbacker

An excelling leader…

An excelling leader is  a confident builder of clarity, collaboration and commitment

– Ty Howard

There are…

There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed.

Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn’t require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

– Michael Josephson

Our…

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.

– Lisa Lutz