The work of significance embraces the very things that industrialism seeks to stamp out. Significance is inconvenient.

We spend a lot of our lives defending past decisions instead of considering new paths forward.

The people you hire to follow instructions are rarely the people who will help you build something of innovation and substance.

A bystander should not take a stone out of a cairn or destroy an inuksuk.

It’s clear that industrial work drives our educational institutions, our hiring practices, and our management philosophies.

Corporations have discovered that there’s a profit to be made in giving away points and turning behavior into a game.

The leader seeks to create the conditions for people to make a change happen. Leaders don’t need authority, but they must coordinate the trust, focus, and connection of people who are enrolled in a journey to do work that matters.

Give up your dreams and your soul, we promise each other, and you can buy some things that will give you status and satisfaction. Or at least let you forget what you gave up.

I surprised myself with what I could accomplish I could work independently The team built something important People treated me with respect Nothing