Quotes About Initiative

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Do What You Want; these are the 4 most frightening words brought to us by the Connection Revolution. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to lead, lead. If you want touch, connect, describe, disrupt, give, support, build, question—Do It. You will not be picked. But, if you want to pick yourself—go for it. The cost is that you own the results.

Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Start Your Journey Before You See the End

Initiative = Happiness

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door.

The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.

alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

They don't understand that Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Apostar no significa estar en lo cierto; significa pasar a la acción.

People don't engage merely to remind one another of the status quo. Instead, they eagerly engage when they want something to improve. This microleadership is essential to the health of your organization.

Hoy en día no empezar es muchísimo peor que equivocarse.

Leadership doesn't always start at the top, but it always manages to affect the folks at the top. In fact, most organizations are waiting for someone like you to lead them.

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

Lean in, back off, but don't do nothing.

Si no acabas, es como si no hubieras empezado; y si no empiezas, no avanzas

El cambio no se realiza pidiendo permiso. El cambio se hace pidiendo disculpas después.

The problem is obvious—if you spend all day hitting the ball back, you'll never end up serving.

There are no longer any great jobs where someone else tells you precisely what to do

If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.