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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Irish playwright and the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, philosopher, and poet
True leadership is inspirational; motivating individuals to become far more than what they currently are. Leadership is not about coordinating activities, setting deadlines, and reporting status; those activities are the work of managers.
Leadership is visionary, creating a picture of a better alternative tomorrow and then inspiring others to passionately seek that vision with a level of commitment that is often unexplainable. There are instances of this type of leadership all around us, the leadership provided by the brave men and women who in our moment of greatest need do the unimaginable to keep us safe from fire, flood, and those who would do us harm. There are also leaders like Matt Harding, who inspired thousands of people from around the world to join together in the fellowship of the dance to make the video “Where the hell is Matt?”.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
“Management creates order where there would otherwise be chaos. Leadership inspires the achievement of greatness.”
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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it’s the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician
“I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.”
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States of America (1801 – 1809)
“To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.”
Anonymous
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Innovation, the act of introducing a new product, service, and/or method, brings with it the opportunity for great success and equally great failure. And while some failures result from unsuccessful attempts to introduce the new and different, no great achievement has ever been born without an act of innovation. Subsequently, a failure to offer something new or to do something differently will at best result in the continuation of today’s outcomes and will more likely result in diminishing returns as highly aggressive competitors offer more and more for less and less.
So what can you do today to become more efficient, more effective, more strategy driven?
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Irish poet and playwright
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
Bernard Berenson (1865 – 1959)
American art historian
Seemingly harsh words, but consider…
Consistency is an interesting word. We often think of it as a desirable quality but that really depends on one’s perspective. In today’s highly competitive business environment, product and service quality are continually advancing. Therefore, companies consistently meeting or exceeding customer expectations are necessarily improving; making their performance anything but consistent. Likewise, employees exhibiting seemingly consistent performance relative to the market are really improving while those whose performance is truly consistent fall behind.
So for the successful, the only true constant is change.
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