“The best leaders I know wrestle with words until they are able to communicate their big ideas in a way that captures the imagination, catalyzes action, and lifts spirits.” Bill Hybels

“Develop the leadership mind-set that embraces innovation as a life force, not as a technological improvement.” – Frances Hesselbein

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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” - Henry David Thoreau

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My friend Jim Seybert recently celebrated his 10^th Year in business by penning the following “lessons” that he’s learned over that time period:

1) Patience and impatience each have their uses, and knowing when to wait or push ahead is sometimes impossible to ascertain.

2) Being flexible is a good thing, unless the situation calls for standing your ground.

3) The plural of focus is focii and focii is a one-word oxymoron because you really can't focus on more than one thing at a time, even though you must to survive.

4) Sometimes the most stubborn person is the one who refuses to stand still and allow a new idea to just pass by.

5) Taking time to rest has greater long-range value than having too much to do, but it's important that you have something from which to rest.

6) Even the most pompous of asses will occasionally have something of value to share.

7) It helps to have more than one Plan A.

8) A vast majority of the seeds you plant will never take root and you won't know which will until they do. So scatter as many seeds as you can and ignore the ones that never sprout.

9) Keeping up with all the social media channels is an annoying pain and probably not worth the effort - which is essentially what they've been saying about all advertising channels since advertising began.

10) Doing "more of the same" is never a good recipe for successful change - unless you haven't been doing enough of it in the first place.

11) All change boils down to one of two things: You can do a different thing, or you can do things differently.