Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.
Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children’s children.
Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not ‘Would I recommend a friend to work here?’ It’s ‘Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?’ And ‘Would I do the same for them?
If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.
If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.
If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.
Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.
Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.
People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.
Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense ‘I have your back’ bonds.
Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one’s inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one’s daily actions.
Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.
Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.
Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.
Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else’s.
Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.
Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
The one thing that’s missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don’t get to escape when the holiday meal is over.
Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.
We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company’s.
Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.
Most companies are not respectful of each individual’s time.
Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.
Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.
Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.
To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.
Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.
Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.
Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.
Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.
Future strong strives for simplicity for all:Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.
Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.
We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.
If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual’s right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?
Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.
What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?
No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you’re under, no matter who needs what by yesterday… Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else’s life.
You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.
We each must select the best hardships for our best future.
It’s time for you to be the hero of your own journey.
It’s time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?
Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.
Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?
Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.
Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.
Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else’s life.
Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.
Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.