Mike Budzik

“Leaders say these things to assuage their conscience. When things go wrong, they can blame others for not speaking up despite the leader’s encouragement to do so. But leadership is about making the lives of others easier, not blaming them. Leadership is about the hard work of taking responsibility for how our actions and words affect the lives of others.”
― L. David Marquet, Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't

“System 2 thinking asks questions like: “What are we missing?” “How might this go wrong?” “If we do this and it ends up going south, what would be the most likely culprit?”
― L. David Marquet, Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't

“I see wealth as a by-product of the mentality of excess, whereas prosperity is a by-product of the mindset of enough.”
― Michael Blue, The Anatomy of Escape: An Unconventional Adventure

“In his book Superminds, MIT professor Thomas Malone probes what makes groups smarter than individuals. He found that one of the factors is the degree to which the words are evenly distributed among the participants. The other two factors Professor Malone attributes the superior group intelligence to are the social intelligence of the members of the group and the proportion of women in the group.”
― L. David Marquet, Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't