#si

Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil! ↗

— J'son M. Lee

#god #god-s-will #inspirational #religion #business

The single biggest challenge to any organization is the constant cloud of fear and doubt that swirls around the heads of the people involved. As a leader, your job is to hold fast to the big picture, to keep seeing in your mind’s eye, with crystal clarity, where it is you’re going—that place that right at this moment exists only in your mind’s eye. And to keep seeing that, even when nobody else does. Especially when nobody else does. Your people count on you to do this. It’s the biggest job you have. ↗

— Bob Burg and John David Mann

#inspirational #business

for a week she has been tormented, she burns to write something, gentle warmth emanates from her whole body, but still nothing comes of it. Besides, at the same time she is also busy burning old books, manuals, professional papers, theoretical volumes--because they keep her from doing the one thing that now seems urgent and right to her: shouting her loud hymn of ecstatic pleasure, breaching the tide of the old tongue's hard blare. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#business

If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#sustainability #business

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors. ↗

— Eric Lowitt

#collaboration #leadership #business

Contrary to popular belief, people always say "It was a pleasure doing business with you". It is the only thing that has stayed with me after an assignment. Always mix business with pleasure. That is a secret they don't want you to know. BUT never mix pleasure with business. Then you might just end up in a divorce. ↗

— Nikhil Sharda

#writing-craft #business

The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers. ↗

— Shep Hyken

#customer-service #business

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. ↗

— Russell Brand

#show-business #work #business

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses. ↗

— Sheryl WuDunn

#money #small-business #women #business