How to Throw More Balls Up Higher: Juggling Work-Life Balance in Demanding Times

• Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
• Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum
• ​Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life. Heather Schuck
• You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once. Oprah Winfrey

Expanding Your Circle of Influence, With or Without Direct Authority

• I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
• You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me. Scott Adams
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
• You cannot get through a single day without having some impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall
• Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Wilfred Peterson
• The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. Colin Powell
• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. Lao Tzu

Agility: The Key to Building a Successful Career

• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson
• Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
• In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. It’s impossible to have a meaningful life without meaningful work, done with people we love doing it with. Jim Collins
• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm
• Three Rules of Life … 1. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. 2. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. 3. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Steve Jobs
• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Tony Robbins
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Tony Robbins
• Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
• Those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand

• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. Jeff Bezos
• Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success. Warren Buffett
• Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business. Warren Buffett
• Market knowledge and planning skills can be taught; integrity and decisiveness can’t. Christopher Cabrera
• The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. Stephen R. Covey
• Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark. Jay Danzie
• The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch & do nothing. Albert Einstein
• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi
• Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown our your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Steve Jobs
• Knowledge will give you power, but character (will give you) respect. Bruce Lee
• Integrity is doing the right thing even if nobody is watching. C. S. Lewis
• Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Abraham Lincoln
• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. Abraham Lincoln
• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
• Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates

Standing on the Shoulders of Mentors

• The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. Confucius
• Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. Steve Goodier
• If I could see further than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton
• Every once in a while, you’ll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that. Tyler Perry
• A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, ‘Yes, someone like me can do this. Sonia Sotomayor
• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

Millennials in Our Midst!

• I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them. Maya Angelou
• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S Buck
• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. Martin Luther King
• Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known. Ronald Reagan
• Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation. Simon Sinek

Leveraging Social Media for Work and Play

• A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is. Scott Cook
• Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred. Simon Mainwaring
• The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action. Simon Mainwaring
• Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. Mark McKinnon
• Social media’s greatest assets – anonymity, ‘virality,’ interconnectedness – are also its main weaknesses. Evgeny Morozov
• Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing. Amber Naslund
• From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it. Dan Rather

Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

• Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams
• The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri
• You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchil
• You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston Churchill
• The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles. Mahatma Gandhi
• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton
• Nothing is worth losing your inner peace. Take action as circumstances require, but never surrender your inner peace. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• For a tree to become tall, it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Friedrich Nietzche
• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
• Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra
• Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith! Hendry David Thoreau
• Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
• Every battle is won BEFORE it is fought. Sun Tzu
• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. Oscar Wilde

Make Your Own Rules

• If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.  Aristotle
• A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be. Deepak Chopra
• Well, when you’re trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk. Michael Eisner
• People tell you that you cannot because they do not. Tim Fargo
• Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm
• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. Anthony Jay
• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac
• All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. Charles Kettering
• Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. Dalai Lama
• The world will be saved by the western woman. Dalai Lama
• The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin H. Land
• When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippman

Women Leading Innovation

• When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see that one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. James Bertrand
• All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. Michael John Bobak
• When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only stand out of my light.”
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
• Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie
• Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. Francis Chan
• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. Colin R. Davis
• I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
• Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. Albert Einstein
• If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
• We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein
• Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. Albert Einstein
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
• Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. Albert Einstein
• We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot
• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert Goddard
• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. Washington Irving
• You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
• Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? Some men dream of things that are not and ask why not? Robert Kennedy
• Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. Robert Kiyosaki
• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. Bruce Lee
• Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. Ted Levitt
• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
• Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
• Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
• Don’t confuse the art of the possible with the art of the profitable. David Tansley
• If you’ve got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time. Jack Welch
• To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White
• Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. Robert Wieder
• Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theordor N. Vail
• Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil
• If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work. Thomas J. Watson
• Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John R. Wooden

The Business Case for Diversity

• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou
• A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou
• One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
• If everyone’s thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. General George Patton
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great. Some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare
• Do something wonderful. People may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer
• It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see. Henry David Thoreau
• You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
• Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde

Getting The Most Out Of Both You and Your Team

• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford
• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. Mia Hamm
• It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. John Swinney
• Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
• It is the sum of all the vectors that matters, not each individual vector’s particular dimensions. A truly magnificent vector pointed in the wrong direction is a liability, not an asset. Conversely, a bunch of relatively ordinary vectors all aligned can kick your butt. It’s called teamwork. Geoffrey Moore
• Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Waitley

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Privacy, Security and Access:

Make Your Own Rules:

ISMAC is Where It’s At

The Business Case for Diversity:

Power to the Team:

Negotiating for a Win-Win

Influence:

Agility:

Age of the Customer:

Multigenerational Workforce:

Resolving Conflict:

Mentorship:

Politics

Social Media:

Linda-isms, quotes by Linda Holroyd

A Work-Life Balance That Works – for Life!

• If work and life take turns, we all win.

Expanding Your Circle of Influence, no matter where you sit at the table

• Be worthy of influencing others, with the goal of benefiting all. The rest will then come.
• ​True change ​wells ​from within, expands outward beyond yourself, then spreads to others in ever-expanding circles.

Embracing Agility in a Sea of Change

• Everything is as it should be, so embrace every career opportunity as the next stepping stone, whether it’s in front of you, sideways from you, or even behind you. You will see the greater message and path soon enough . . . or not!
• What the world needs now are shapers to envision a future, ​
  bridge​-​builders ​to connect the silos​, and teachers

Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand

• Your brand is the essence of who you are,. What you think, what you do, and how you are perceived for these things will live beyond your physical being.

Standing on the Shoulders of Mentors

• Mentors are a gift to yourself, which continues giving to all those around you.

Embracing Our Multi-Generational Workforce

• With the new way of doing business, your new secret weapon will be to embrace the mind-set of people who aren’t like you, and to be open to the way things are done.
• ​When facing change, start with being ​plan-fully ​realistic, continue by
  ​generating  optimistic​ possibilities​ and ​finish with inclusivity, perseverance and fortitude.

Communicating in an Age of Social Media

• Now that we can say more and reach more people faster, we must be even more careful what we say and how we say it.

Collaborative Innovation Secrets

• Innovation is full contradictions – mixing the old to bring on the new, being original while integrating tried-and-true technologies and standards, being competitive while being collaborative.

Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

• Where there are people, there will be politics. So stop fearing the fear, and engage in a positive, proactive way.

Make Your Own Rules

• Make your mark as a rule-breaker who opened up opportunities for all.
• ​When a challenge chooses us​, embrace it as an opportunity for your next path forward.

The Business Case for Diversity

• Diversity provides that cow’s-eye view, so that you can see the world the way customers, management, staff, partners and others-who-don’t-think-like-you see the world.

Power to the Team

• The ‘we’ attitude of teams brings out the leaders in each member.