14 Quotes by Michael Carroll

He started coaching me in baseball at 12, and then started coaching me in life.

The reality that everything is constantly changing provokes and tickles our attention because we never really know what’s going to happen next. We are awake at work precisely because everything is in question. Everything we are, everything we do, everything we want and desire, is basically in question each and every moment. This powerful and sharp reality demands that we wake up.

To be awake at work is to engage each circumstance now, on its own vivid, fluid, and uncertain terms.

For mindful leaders, cultivating such organizational health requires first and foremost a mastery of organizational conduct – a fluency in nine basic competencies: Eliminate toxicity. Appreciate health. Build trust. Send clear messages. Embrace resistance. Understand blindness. Accept invitations. Heal wounds. Be realistic.

He reminded himself that people are, individually, fairly smart. Collectively, however, people are morons.