Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
HENRY CLOUDLove can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
HENRY CLOUDThe opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love
HENRY CLOUDIn a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school.
HENRY CLOUDConsequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
HENRY CLOUDWhen leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.
HENRY CLOUDWe change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.
HENRY CLOUDLeave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
HENRY CLOUDThe amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that’s present.
HENRY CLOUDThere’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
HENRY CLOUDA leader’s responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
HENRY CLOUDBeing right can never compete with doing well.
HENRY CLOUDThere is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
HENRY CLOUDIf your boundary training consists only of words, you are wasting your breath. But if you ‘do’ boundaries with your kids, they internalize the experiences, remember them, digest them, and make them part of how they see reality.
HENRY CLOUDA culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.
HENRY CLOUDWhatever’s happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don’t treat it like it’s the whole story. Keep writing the story.
HENRY CLOUDTo grow, we need things that we do not have and cannot provide, and we need to have a source of those things who looks favorably upon us and who does things for us for our own good.
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