Give Up Control And Give It Away

Now, Before Sliced Bread Was Invented In The 1910s I Wonder What They Said? Like The Greatest Invention Since The Telegraph Or Something. But... The Thing About The Invention Of Sliced Bread Is This - That For The First 15 Years After Sliced Bread Was Available No One Bought It; No One Knew About It; It Was A Complete And Total Failure.

Initiative Is The Privilege Of Picking Yourself.

All Artists Are Entrepreneurs. All Entrepreneurs Are Artists.

Everyone Has Failed, Everyone Has Misspoken, Everyone Has Meant Well But Done The Wrong Thing. Your Favorite Restaurants, Cafes And Books Have All Gotten A One-star Review Along The Way. No Brand Is Perfect, No Individual Can Pretend To Be Either. Perfect Can't Possibly Be The Goal, We're Left With Generous, Important And Human Instead.

I Find That It's Almost Essential To Fall In Love With An Idea To Invest The Time It Takes To Make It Good And Worth Sharing. And Then, The Hard Part: Deleting That Idea When It's Just Not What It Could Be. Too Often, Organizations Are Good At The First Part, But Struggle With The Second. And So We Defend Expired Business Models, Support The Status Quo And Have A Knee-jerk Inclination To Preserve What We've Got.