The secret of happiness is:
find something more important
than you are and
dedicate your life to it.Daniel Dennett, Philosopher
The U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds move in unison, seemingly thinking and acting as one…at over 1,000 miles-per-hour. Their actions and thoughts must be precisely aligned. This team, with 50% turnover each year, has built the ultimate repeatable process for aligning its team, for developing a shared mental model of precision.
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit with the C-Suiter’s of a highly-successful $7B business. The topic of discussion: The Questionable Future of the Company. Why? They were internationally recognized as an entrepreneurial giant, noted for their “Pirate” mentality consistently causing beneficial market disruption which yielded revolutionary advancements.… Read the rest
“Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can’t light a fire with a wet match.”
If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”
“In order for a business unit, function or organization to obtain heretofore unrealized opportunities it is often necessary to have executives who work in the white space and find these opportunities”
Taking a break to celebrate a respite from our labors today. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow!
“Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”
We sat in the Officer’s Club at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho: three lieutenants with cold beers in hand trying to impress each other with the hours we were working. It was a perverse matter of pride for us–and lots of others at the time–to brag about the amount of time we were working. Bragging about children’s birthdays missed, anniversaries spent away, and late nights was a badge of honor.… 
“It might look and seem beautiful and calm; there is a significant difference in ineffective leadership, lack of leadership, and leadership that is in stasis.”
“Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage”
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