To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
Simon SinekRead
If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.
Interpretation
Breaking rules can lead to progress and innovation.
This quote emphasizes that in order for society or any field to progress, individuals must be willing to challenge and break existing rules or norms. It suggests that without such daring actions, advancement and improvement would stagnate.
In practice
In a motivational speech about creativity in the workplace.
To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
Every company knows what they do _x000D_ Some know how they do it _x000D_ Very few know why
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.
If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.
When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.
Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.
If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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