I took a few minutes today to glance over my Catalyst One-Day workbook... paying special attention to the notes I highllighted. These three items made my highlighted list. They struck me as significant when I first heard them, and in reading over them today I found myself nodding at the truth found in each of these kernels of knowledge.
+ The assumptions that a team has held the longest, or the most deeply, are the likeliest to be its undoing. Don't let anything be off-limits for discussion.
+ Vision doesn't change. The plans in response to the vision most likely will change.
+ We must refuse to do things that don't make a difference.
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ... George Bernard Shaw
Many people die with their music still in them. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes
Great leaders don't create followers. Great leaders create leaders.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ... Dorothy Parker
God is looking for those with whom he can do the impossible- What a pity that we plan things we can only do by ourselves. ... A. W. Tozer
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. ... Seth Godin
The great illusion of leadership is is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. ... Henri Nouwen Jesus used stories when he spoke to the people. In fact, he did not tell them anything without using stories. ... Matthew 13:34 CEV