Quotes from Bill Jensen, Future Strong

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.

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

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.

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 heartbeatthat's the real you.

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

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.

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

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

Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.

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

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.

Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.

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

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

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

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.

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

We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.

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

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

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.

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

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