Quotes from Kevin Cashman

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Tethered to our smart phones, we are too caught up and distracted to take the time necessary to sort through complexity or to locate submerged purpose . In our urgent rush to get "there," we are going everywhere but being nowhere. Far too busy managing with transactive speed, we rarely step back to lead with transformative significance.

Change challenges our current reality by forcing a new reality to rush in.

Leadership is courageous, authentic influence that creates enduring value.

Leaders bring clarity and hope." No easy task in the vortex of VUCA. Johansen contends that we have "to flip the VUCA forces to terms that create possibilities and redefine VUCA as: Vision; Understanding; Clarity; Agility.