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Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs – no matter what – so that everyone comes out future strong.Bill Jensen
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Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children’s children.Bill Jensen
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Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It’s 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?Bill Jensen
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If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.Bill Jensen
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If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths – biases, fears, courage, values and dreams – do or do not impact the daily work of others.Bill Jensen
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If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.Bill Jensen
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Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.Bill Jensen
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Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.Bill Jensen
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All the statistics about how many jobs you’ll have over your lifetime… (15-20) and how many companies you’ll work for… while true, completely miss the point! From now on, treat those numbers as red herrings – crucial only to HR directors, leaders and companies who are stuck in the past. The Rule of Disruptive Personal Transformation: Every year, you will experience about 100 significant transformative moments. Most will be thrust upon you by the disruptive churn of our times. Driven, focused people know which 3–5 to seize each year as crucial to their future. .Bill Jensen
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Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.Bill Jensen
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To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.Bill Jensen
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Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.Bill Jensen
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Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one’s inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one’s daily actions.Bill Jensen
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Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.Bill Jensen
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Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.Bill Jensen
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Tomorrow’s workforce is flopping the relationship lens: They see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreamsâ€Å–â€Åvehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere. Companies that they will join are seen as communities that explore and resource and fund making a difference in the world in ways that align with their personal approach and values.Bill Jensen
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The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing – your call to adventure – is your best tool in that battle.Bill Jensen
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Loyalty – deep, intense, devoted loyalty – to a leader or a culture, to any group, brand or idea, goes far beyond being engaged or having our needs met. We see our emotional selves in that connection. We see our future, our best selves and our better angels in that connection.Bill Jensen
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Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.Bill Jensen
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Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.Bill Jensen
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Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.Bill Jensen
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Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.Bill Jensen
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The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.Bill Jensen
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Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.Bill Jensen
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The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.Bill Jensen
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Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.Bill Jensen
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We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.Bill Jensen
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Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.Bill Jensen
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Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.Bill Jensen
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Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.Bill Jensen
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Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.Bill Jensen
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The future is personal.Bill Jensen
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The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.Bill Jensen
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Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.Bill Jensen
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Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.Bill Jensen
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The choices you make create your future.Bill Jensen
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To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.Bill Jensen
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Future strong is being focused enough and mindful enough and courageous enough to search for patterns and order when all others see chaos and noise.Bill Jensen
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Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.Bill Jensen
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Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success – creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.Bill Jensen
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Future strong builds actions upon reflection, questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections.Bill Jensen
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Future strong strives for simplicity for all: Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person.Bill Jensen
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Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful. Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joyfor others and ourselves.Bill Jensen
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We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today’s leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.Bill Jensen
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Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.Bill Jensen
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You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?Bill Jensen
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Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.Bill Jensen
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What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?Bill Jensen
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No matter how crazed you get, no matter what pressures you're under, no matter who needs what by yesterday... Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.Bill Jensen
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You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.Bill Jensen