The community of the followers of Jesus, the community of the better righteousness, is the visible community: it has left the world and society, and counted everything but loss for the cross of Christ.

An identity or a career cannot be built around what you don’t want. We have to shift from a negative identity, or a sense of what I’m not, to a positive one, or a sense of what I am.

Dissociation is the essence of trauma. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented, so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and physical sensations related to the trauma take on a life of their own.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Accountant Rarely seen at this stage. Work with one used to work with startups.

Markets change all the time and our job is to change with them.

Organizations which design systems . . . are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

No matter what we do on the outside, people respond to how we feel on the inside

What will become of young adults who look accomplished on paper but seem to have a hard time making their way in the world without the constant involvement of their parents?

Our careers, our companies, our relationships, and indeed our very lives succeed or fail, gradually, then suddenly, one conversation at a time.