Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future."
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"To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Loyalty — deep, intense, devoted loyalty — to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here' It’s 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me' And 'Would I do the same for them?"
Bill Jensen, 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."
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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"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."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of Shit Rolls Downhill Shovelers, Shit Catchers, and New Shit Creators."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
"We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's."
Bill Jensen, Future Strong
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