21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.
We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.
The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
It is time to euthanize change management.
Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.
Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.
When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.
Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the fir...
Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.
A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.
A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!
The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a “right time” for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing...
