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Friday, November 21, 2003

 

We look at risk differently from other people. We always ask, What is the risk of doing nothing? We don't bet the company, but if we're not taking some calculated risks, we stop growing, and we may die.

Gordon Forward
CEO, Chaparral Steel

Thursday, November 20, 2003

 

As Plato understood twenty-five hundred years ago, we should be wary of those who want desperately to lead for the sake of leading. When leadership ambition, like Gandhi's, is directed toward achieving an end, it is both noble and necessary. But ambitious leadership that is about nothing more than the glorification of the self is both unseemly and potentially dangerous.

James O'Toole
Leadership A-Z

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

 

You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

 

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Alvin Toffler

Monday, November 17, 2003

 

Too much is happening too quickly for the tinkerer to succeed. Only those who play hard - who try any damned thing that comes to mind, as long as it's crazy enough to possibly change the world - are likely to survive. Many (most!) such risk takers will indeed be consumed by the flame. On the other hand, the handful who persevere will be those who lead us into an Age of True Re-imagination.

Tom Peters
Re-imagine!