Everyone means well. But that’s not enough.
You need systems to back up your intentions to ensure they don’t remain just that, intentions.
More failure can be attributed to a breakdown in systems than a breakdown of intentions.
(Sorry about the system breakdown that meant you haven’t received my weekly blog for a couple of months. Sam)
There’s a tendency to gather information, and more information, and more information, indefinitely if a decision is important.
Your next 40 years will be determined by your next ten years.
A mantra I live by in business is, ‘tolerance is the enemy of excellence.’
Functional fixes are not solutions for existential misalignments.
If you’re buying your lunch from someone, what happens if he’s 20cms shorter than you?
It’s almost certain that what’s being agreed isn’t fully understood.
Don’t be a dick.
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
In tennis, the majority of the game is spent volleying.