Because significant organizations spend most of their time and energy

Because significant organizations spend most of their time and energy not being where they were yesterday. In fact, the uncertainty and the dislocation are the point, not a temporary inconvenience.

— The Song of Significance8 more from Seth Godin→

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the proving groundWe spend half of our waking hours in life at work. It is our chance to prove that we can cooperate to do something worthwhile, to do what's right, and to make things better for people who care, so that in this wayward and chaotic world, we will be prepared when the stakes are inevitably higher.

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