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Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What’s important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it’s time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

Thereafter I tried to train everyone to pay attention to every detail, and I organised a chain reaction of feedback. I told them they must say what’s on their minds. The men near the foredeck would speak through the vastly experienced Ya, the rest through Hughey, both filtering the vital information to me. Silence means tension, and that’s no good. I must have told the crew a thousand times: “When we come off the starting line, I want this boat as loose as a goose. I want feedback, opinions, everyone tuned in, making observations, helping in every way—everyone totally involved, contributing. Everyone is crucial to this effort.”

Born to Win

John Bertrand

“I won’t be wading in early,” Teddy said. “Too many friends. But I can tell you this, Barack. The power to inspire is rare. Moments like this are rare. You think you may not be ready, that you’ll do it at a more convenient time. But you don’t choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.” —

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

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