After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
I trust people, and I respect their areas of responsibility.
I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.
I'm the eldest of six kids, and I think that may have some significance. I think there's some correlation between maybe being the eldest and wanting to blaze a trail. I think that probably helps in some way.
When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. " And I think the same applies to change within an organization.
Pacing is really important in an organization.
I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and part of reinforcing trust is making sure that people feel accountability, and with accountability comes some degree of autonomy. You don't have one without the other.
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.
Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.
Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.
Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.