By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.
If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.
. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.
And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.