A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!
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Paul Gibbons
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Reboot Your Career: A Blueprint for Finding Your Calling, Marketing Yourself, and Landing Great Gigs
Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive
The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
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A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.
The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a __ight time_ for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!
As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.
Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.
Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.
Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.
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.
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
It is time to euthanize change management.
Yesterday__ decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.