Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.
If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.
The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.
Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.
If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way