Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Not much in the world ends up being the same as it started out,

unless of course it had a very short life cycle.

You can’t change the road you traveled from a child, but you can certainly take a different road for the journey into your future.

Our lives are changed by surrounding ourselves with people who are changing their lives.