It takes the ability to be a participant and an observer or third-party facilitifier at the same time. This takes a lot of mental and emotional discipline, but if you have faith in the principles and sufficient internal courage and integrity, you can do it.

Mentors provide heroes with motivation, inspiration, guidance, training, and gifts for the journey. Every hero is guided by something, and a story without some acknowledgement of this energy is incomplete.

Seth now understood that standard operating procedures were not fixed, inflexible laws with no room for variation. They were guidelines that needed to be balanced with adaptability and common sense. Balancing that dichotomy was required for everyone, especially leaders.

If you dismiss the word of God’ s command, you will not receive his word of grace. How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

Your feelings are your responsibility and you must own them and see them as your problem so you can begin to find an answer to whatever issue they are pointing to.

The fact remains that teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.

Lesson 3: When you come up with new products, make sure they appeal to a sub-audience of your current customers.

If you repeatedly distract your child from what they feel or from their experience, you are also unwittingly discouraging them from being able to concentrate.

Integrity: you choose courage over comfort.

If you build an organization made up of high performers, you can eliminate most controls. The denser the talent, the greater the freedom you can offer.