Tag: Leadership
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Actions speak louder than words.
Read enough books on leadership, listen to enough Ted talks, scroll enough LinkedIn posts, and a common theme appears. According to those sources, leadership is all about action! A sucessful leader is all about doing! Creating! Managing Change! Executing! Responding to things! The funny thing is, if you talk with leaders with strategy and vision…
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If we can’t imagine it, we’ can’t build it.
There’s a number of versions of this quote; I like the commanding tone of this one. When you have a grand idea, the first step is believing it’s possible. Everything after that is just an exercise in figuring out how to do it. If impossible things were fact, there wouldn’t be any innovation.
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Volcanoes are cool. And Hot.
A wonderful quote from Ms. Adventure, the aptly titled quarter-life memoir from geologist, explorer, and science evangelist Jess Phoenix. Go read her book and follow her on all the socials.
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SignPosts: Discord can sound beautiful
In a past life, we used to do weekly office hours meetings. You would open with a song, and then have a few minutes to deliver a message. This particularly week, the message I wanted to deliver was pretty simple: Even in the middle of Chaos, Talented People can produce Extraordinary Things. The song I…