How can we help one another to become better learners, to be the best versions of ourselves each and every day?
My favourite quote in recent years, one that fuels me through whatever trials and tribulations the feast and famine might bring. It applies to start-ups, be it LinkedIn, PayPal, your local goat yoga or the corner juice truck, or large organisations being impacted by these incumbents, or even citizens trying to make sense of chaos in this world, often relentlessly chiselling away for their very existence, seeking their place in this world.
The quote comes from Reed Hoffman, founder of a few of the start-ups mentioned above, and author of one of my favourite books on managing talent in the new world. The Alliance.
This is the equivalent of the 6 inches speech delivered by Al Pacino in the locker room in the movie Any Given Sunday.
''They’re hard, but that hardness is the thing that gives you the chance to change the world. All start-ups go through the valley of the shadows. LinkedIn, Facebook, Tesla, Everdream, Dell, Airbnb all have been through the valleys of the shadows. There is no way of knowing that it would be that hard, but that’s where you and your team have the possibility of being heroic. Of accomplishing something that’s never been done. That get’s reflected in your community and society, and changes millions of people's lives. That’s why we face down these hard days, banding together, to be heroes.''
- Reed Hoffman
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