Mark Brown

“What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.”
― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

“Probably the two greatest failures of leaders are indecisiveness in times of urgent need for action and dead certainty that they are right in times of complexity. In either case, leaders are vulnerable to silver bullets—in the one case grasping them, and in the other, relishing them.”
― Michael Fullan, The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive

“When it comes to war, if you’re going to pick up a gun, you cannot have an imbalance of commitment. You have to be ready to go, ready to fight, and ready to die.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“Quantum physics teaches us that the observer shapes the reality of that which is being observed. In the church we call that the power of the Living Word. In the same way that God creates by speaking God’s word, we too co-create (although on a much smaller scale) our church and the world around us by how we perceive it and the kinds of stories we tell about it.”
― Andrew Doyle, Church: A Generous Community Amplified for the Future