Contentment is peaceful, not passive.
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”— Thomas A. Edison
Be content with the present and restless for what’s next.
Restless contentment believes tomorrow can be better. Aspirational contentment honors talent, respects potential, enjoys today, and steps toward the future.
Measure success in human terms.
If you don’t aim to touch lives, you’ll succeed at being forgettable.
You can hit your numbers and miss people. Leadership is about enriching the lives of those around you.
Solving the wrong problem is dangerous.
Helping in the wrong way wastes time and resources. Worse yet, helping in the wrong way often blows up in your face.
Help is essential to exponential success. Offer it thoughtfully.
“The people who become superstars are simply those who receive the most help.” Anonymous
Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.
Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.
Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.
I didn’t dream big when I created Leadership Freak. I just wanted to make a difference.
Big dreams are burdens.
Small dreams often provide surprising results.
Big dreams make regular people feel small. But, if the statistics are accurate, most of us are average.
12 Ways to Dream Small And Win!
If you don’t have friends at work, you feel alone for half your life. But close relationships with direct reports feel awkward.
Be friendly. But you aren’t equals. Pretending otherwise leads to confusion and resentment.
Power distorts connection.
Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
