Ken Norton

Creative vs. Reactive leadership: Are you responding to the world from fear — wanting to be right, liked, defensive? Or from openness, curiosity, purpose, growth? Research shows creative leadership is positively correlated with every dimension of success. Reactive is negatively correlated.

Advice is like cotton candy. You get a nice sugar high, both sides feel happy — but a couple months later, nothing's really changed. That's because advice doesn't confront the real problem, and what worked at Google may not work anywhere else.