“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Approaching the year-end is a time when many people pause and reflect on what they have already accomplished (highly recommended by this scribe); then look at what they want to create in the new year.
The leadership lesson de Saint-Exupery teaches above certainly applies to when motivating a team or a family or a work unit. My suggestion is to also apply it to our inner dialogue as we look at what is possible for us in 2010 and into a more distant future.
Go big or go home.
Your thoughts about vision...or anything else...can be memorialized here.
With love and respect,
Robert
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Hi Robert! This quote is one of my very favorites. Let's hope we can all invoke its sentiments in 2010!
-Christa
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