Bill Jensen Quotes & Sayings

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 heartbeat
that's the real you. — Bill Jensen

People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action. — Bill Jensen

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

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us. — Bill Jensen

Who have you chosen to become? — Bill Jensen

Future strong builds actions upon reflection,
questions, curiosity, seeking to understand root causes and systemic connections. — Bill Jensen

The future is personal. — Bill Jensen

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work. — Bill Jensen

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals. — Bill Jensen

We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's. — Bill Jensen

Future strong is relationship-driven and joyful.
Its best bet is on people. Its outcomes create joy
for others and ourselves. — Bill Jensen

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same. — Bill Jensen

It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future? — Bill Jensen

Despite several millennia of building best business practices, despite all the analysis and planning, and forced discipline and structure, what makes us human will never be cleaved from how work gets done. — Bill Jensen

Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work. — Bill Jensen

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly. — Bill Jensen

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave? — Bill Jensen

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one. — Bill Jensen

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

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

Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward. — Bill Jensen

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have. — Bill Jensen

Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time. — Bill Jensen

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

Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators. — Bill Jensen

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

Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker. — Bill Jensen

The future of work revolution begins one person at a time. — Bill Jensen

Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped. — Bill Jensen

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

The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage. — Bill Jensen

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. — Bill Jensen

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

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

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

Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today. — Bill Jensen

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

Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty. — Bill Jensen

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

Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one? — Bill Jensen

Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future. — Bill Jensen

We all deserve the best possible future. — Bill Jensen

To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices. — Bill Jensen

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future. — Bill Jensen

Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers. — Bill Jensen

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year. — Bill Jensen

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds. — Bill Jensen

Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty. — Bill Jensen

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

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

The choices you make create your future. — Bill Jensen

YOU are the next big thing. — Bill Jensen

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does. — Bill Jensen

We each must select the best hardships for our best future. — Bill Jensen

Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere. — Bill Jensen

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

If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary. — Bill Jensen

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers. — Bill Jensen

Future strong strives for simplicity for all:
Least amount of individual effort, energy and time to create maximum impact by each person. — Bill Jensen

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

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

Your choices are where your future begins. — Bill Jensen

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

You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough? — Bill Jensen

People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow's workforce won't. — Bill Jensen

Who will you choose to have your back? — Bill Jensen

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

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly. — Bill Jensen

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey. — Bill Jensen

Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies. — Bill Jensen

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster. — Bill Jensen

What's your one thing? When you pause long enough to hear its heartbeat, your one thing will take your breath away. When you pause long enough to feel it, your eyes will tear up or you won't be able to stop smiling, dancing and having a blast! — Bill Jensen