Best 67 quotes of Bill Jensen on MyQuotes

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.

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

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

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

All the statistics about how many jobs you’ll have over your lifetime… (15-20) and how many companies you’ll work for… while true, completely miss the point! From now on, treat those numbers as red herrings — crucial only to HR directors, leaders and companies who are stuck in the past. The Rule of Disruptive Personal Transformation: Every year, you will experience about 100 significant transformative moments. Most will be thrust upon you by the disruptive churn of our times. Driven, focused people know which 3—5 to seize each year as crucial to their future.

Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.

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

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one.

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

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future.

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.

Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.

Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

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

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

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

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

Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

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

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.

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.

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

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.

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

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.

If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.

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

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

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

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.

Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.

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.

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

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

Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.

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.

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.

Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.

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.

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?

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.

The choices you make create your future.

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.

The future is personal.

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

... the Gen Y paradox: an entire generation of employees with the attitude that they know how to communicate with anybody, anytime, anywhere, and have the tools to back them up, but who need more help with critical thinking than prior generations in pulling meaning and value from all those communications.

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