Most business resources talk about getting the right people on the bus, that it’s critical to field the best team to be successful. Great ideal, but how do you define great people?
I have developed a really simple framework.
One group makes themselves feel OK by making everything someone else’s fault. The other group changes the world.
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.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.