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Plans are how greatness is born.

And yet, experience reminds us that every plan must change when a concept makes contact with reality.

While sports and business might look different, the mind-sets are remarkably similar. In either domain, the best players have to defy conventions and embrace new ideas, rising above whatever challenge they may face to beat the competition. Lessons learned on the playing field translate remarkably well off-field.

Gaining an advantage requires innate

Nothing is perfect…

But everything can get better.

There’s never enough time…

But there’s time enough to make a difference.

Someone will always be opposed to the change we seek to make.

And there’s always someone who wants to help.

When everyone agrees something would “never” work, that’s precisely when it will. Consensus kills innovation.

Consumers are much more important to CEOs today because they have a much greater ability to influence things.

Co-creation should be less about spectacle and defined more by transparency, reciprocity, and the infrastructure for true partnership.

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The most progressive companies and CEOs aren’t just talking to customers, they are harnessing customers’ energy to help build loyalty and support for their wares—and even to help companies build new products. Research from ad agency TBWA\Worldwide found that 15% of adults globally would spend more for a brand that lets them “participate in collabor

Institutional knowledge is one of the key assets in any organization. Held across the organization, this collective memory makes it possible to maintain standards, make informed decisions, and reinforce the culture.

Institutional knowledge represents the long-term health and currency of an enterprise.

Any gap or loss of knowledge can significantly th

Time and time again, I am reminded: Everything takes longer than you think.

This is why, if you’re doing something new, you should:

Build in buffers.

Build in time to get into flow.

Build in time to think.

Build in time to discover unknown unknowns.

Build in time to learn.

Build in time to recuperate.

Build in time to troubleshoot.

AI has upended an ecosystem that many organizations assumed was normal and here to stay.

We can lament the end of an ecosystem. After all, we worked hard to get here and we counted on it. We’re comfortable with it and we understand it.

Or, we can accept that ecosystems come and go, and focus our energy on how the next ecosystem gives us a chance to d