Nourish Your Mind, Nurture Your Soul
To become a part of a well-functioning ‘we,’ a person needs also to remain an individual ‘me.
The goal of such early contact with customers is not to gain definitive answers. Instead, it is to clarify at a basic, coarse level that we understand our potential customer and what problems they have.
Suffering is Optional, Pain is Not.
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.
For many people, in a great flood, is love... love as the meaning and purpose of life, the key to the universe, and the ultimate truth.
Question 1: Why do we exist? This defines an organization’s core purpose or reason for being.
Build a powerful brand—Rule 4—by developing a concise statement of who you are and why you are uniquely qualified to be doing what you’re doing.
In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
Being a leader requires: Accept uncertainty and take bold risks.
Over time, our choices become habits of the heart. And, more than any other factor, these habits of the heart affect our time and the quality of our lives.