Tom Schmidt

When you look outside — your rivals, your industry, your luck — there is always something to blame. When you look inside — your process, your effort,

“I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.”

“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another. And that is I say

The discussion in a brain trust is always about the topic, never about who's right New people in the room want to demonstrate capability. If their ide

focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many

Every complaint about you is also a commercial for you—after all, nobody bothers to yell at a nobody.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It's not. It's about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind. Wh