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Reading board member / company leadership’s book

Following your curiosity might lead you to your passion or it might not. You might get nothing out of it all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity

These men and women show that pain, suffering and hardship are not the enemies. Delusion, ignorance and fear are the enemies

Being a successful CEO requires the opposite mindset from that of startups entrepreneurs. It isn’t about how fast you can run, how many hurdles you can leap or how many impossible challenges you can overcome. It is rather about enabling others to achieve those qualities in themselves

Clear roadblocks and lay tracks, those are the two things you have to do as CEO

As CEO you have to trust your team members know how to do their job better than you do. If not, you hired the wrong people and assembling the right team needs to be your highest priority

With clear strategic goals, it becomes easy to evaluate opportunities based on wether or not they accomplish the main strategic priorities

I saw every opportunity as relevant and useful. But growth was the goal, not the strategy

You can be be effectively opportunistic only when you have a clear strategy that is agreed upon and followed from the top to the bottom of the organization

But it wasn’t my job anymore to hustle nonstop and think that I had to do everything on my own

Especially in the world of fast moving entrepreneurship, it’s critical to resist the seductive tendency to think you have to act now and to overvalue gut decisions

To be vulnerable is to be real, to build trust and create confidence in what matters most

Help to attract and keep good advisors was by doing our best to follow through on their advice even if we didn’t end up agreeing with them

In certain cases we definitely made bad hires and poor choices in bringing on the wrong people for specific roles and have to let them go

Vulnerability is not about being weak; it’s about having courage to be honest with yourself

When you hold on to something—old hurts, plans that didn’t work out, outdated ideas— you are blocking the opportunity to receive fresh ideas and inspiration

The painful stuff that may pop up in moments of vulnerability or stress, but for the most part we keep suppressed in order to function in our day-to-day lives

To be joyful in our activities, to take pleasure in the expression of our talents and to simply be in the moment. We derive strength from being in tune with the world around us, not pushing against it and imposing our own arbitrary goals.

There is always an intelligent solution to every problem that is worth fighting for

Creating dialogue and listening intently to all sides

To be able to truly feel joy, we must be willing to sit with grief

This journey has helped me with the greater challenge of struggling to find and act with basic human goodness on a daily basis