Chris Parry

When hiring, look for people with the right attitude. Skills can be taught. Attitude changes require a brain transplant.

from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

“In the past, jobs were about muscles. Now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.”

Everything has its season,
all exists in oscillation.

“What gets measured gets done,” Peter Drucker once famously said. But the terrible thing is that this often translates to the only things getting done being the things easily measured. And much of the richness, meaning, and fulfilment in life come from the things that can’t be measured easily

‘Let go of certainty,' says author and journalist Tony Schwartz. ‘The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.'

TO MAKE PROGRESS, WE MUST AVOID SUCCESS. It's tempting to declare victory, and to feel as though we have ‘made it'. But pioneering leaders know this is an infinite game we're playing — one with no finish line. You always have more opportunities to learn, grow and develop to stay relevant. Sure — you'll have small wins along the way. But constructiv

TO BUILD CONVICTION, WE MUST EMBRACE DOUBT. German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once said that ‘doubt grows with knowledge'. And Aristotle is said to have once quipped, ‘the more you know, the more you know you don't know'. Whereas some might claim to have all of the right answers, pioneering leaders instead value asking the right questio

To gain certainty, we must embrace fuzziness. Where the operationally driven leader manufactures an artificial sense of certainty — often in the form of clear targets and goals — the pioneering leader feels no such need. As such a leader, you're comfortable making progress while only having a fuzzy sense of the potential destination. You don't wait