Quotes from Bill Jensen

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We each must select the best hardships for our best future.

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.