In our bodies, it’s our skeleton that holds everything in the right place.
You’re not going to try to build a muscle that’s attached to a broken bone.
That would be stupid.
So why, in business, do the ‘muscles’ get the most attention, with very little attention paid to the ‘bones’, the structure of the organisation?
When we ensure the bones are right, the muscles can work as they are meant to.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.