Our job as a leader is not to maintain things, it’s to make things better

Pursuing excellence
Be so remarkable that people actually make positive remarks about you

 

Our job as a leader is not to maintain things, it’s to make things better.

Push the envelop.

Inspire others to find small ways to constantly improve.

And it starts (and is most effective) with us being remarkable.

Never being satisfied is a cross to carry.

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The one most glaring metric to use to know if we’re making a difference

Steve Jobs quote
If you take a moment to read it carefully, it’s hard to disagree with

 

The one most glaring metric to use to know if we’re making a difference:

The number of people who doubt you (initially) and what you stand for

We call it a comfort zone for a reason.

We’re all gonna die, and 100 years from now no one will remember us.

So here’s the one (very redundant) secret we all actually know, but find comfort in denying. Why deny this?

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101 days later

Christmas evening 2012, 9:50pm…

A promise is a promise.

Overcoming adversity is overcoming adversity.

Ridiculous is the new remarkable.

Remarkable is when people make remarks, like I have been – since opening Seth Godin’s new 800+ page behemoth book, “This Might Work”.

It arrived from China a few weeks ago via Amazon. Didn’t open the box until three days ago.

Chapin and I gave it to Cheryl as a “fun-gift”, for no real reason than simply because it is such a ridiculous book.

Gigantic, 19+ pounds. Not for sale in stores nor online. Months ago I pre-ordered it, expecting it to arrive in March 3013.

Ha!

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Some People Never See It Coming

About 50 meters from Jungle Cruise, a job I began January 25, 1982…

Have you ever started out on a reasonable journey, eventually getting to a place you never tried to be, never dreamt of, never had it as a goal?

But there you found yourself, in some way, a remarkable person for having the guts to stick with an idea. Ever do this?

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