Quotes from Bill Jensen

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 is personal.

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.

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

The choices you make create your future.

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

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 letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

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

Future strong strives for simplicity for all: Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.

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

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

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.

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.