Bill Jensen Quotes

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.

Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done.

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeat
that's the real you.

No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.

To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.

People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.

Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.
Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joy
for others and ourselves.

People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow's workforce won't.

YOU are the next big thing.

If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children's children.

Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

We all deserve the best possible future.

Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

Who have you chosen to become?

You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.

Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.

It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Loyalty - deep, intense, devoted loyalty - to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

What's your one thing? When you pause long enough to hear its heartbeat, your one thing will take your breath away. When you pause long enough to feel it, your eyes will tear up or you won't be able to stop smiling, dancing and having a blast!

The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing - your call to adventure - is your best tool in that battle.

To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Who will you choose to have your back?

Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.

Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team's or organization's culture. It's not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It's 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?

Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.