Live the rest of your life in possibility

This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Jobs

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Architect Possibility Relentless

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say “How fascinating!”

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Stories

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Motivation

It’s not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, ‘I have a dream … But I don’t know if the others will buy it.’

BENJAMIN ZANDER

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Jobs

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Celebrate Make Mistakes

I have a definition of success.

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Definition Definitions

My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it. If they’re not shining you get to ask this question: “Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shining?”

BENJAMIN ZANDER

Eye Jobs