Almost everything can wait. And almost everything should.

Culture is what culture does. Culture isn’t what you intend it to be. It’s not what you hope or aspire for it to be. It’s what you do. So do better.

If the boss really wants to know what’s going on, the answer is embarrassingly obvious: They have to ask!

Companies waste an enormous amount of time and energy trying to convince everyone to agree before moving forward on something. What they’ll often get is reluctant acceptance that masks secret resentment. Instead, they should allow everyone to be heard and then turn the decision over to one person to make the final call. It’s their job to listen,

If you get into the habit of suppressing all discomfort, you’re going to lose yourself, your manners, and your morals.

Partial attention is barely attention at all.

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

(1) The workday is being sliced into tiny, fleeting work moments by an onslaught of physical and virtual distractions. And (2) an unhealthy obsession with growth at any cost sets towering, unrealistic expectations that stress people out.

Creativity, progress, and impact do not yield to brute force.