Top 30 David Sturt Quotes
#1. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.
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#2. While good work, crucial as it is, sets our attention on execution and delivery, great work sets our attention on benefiting others.
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#3. When we engage people in conversations about great work, we're not asking them to solve a problem for us. We're not selling something, nor are we asking for some kind of handout. What we're really doing is inviting them to participate with us in the shared enjoyment of making a difference.
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#4. Thinking of the good our work can do for others, beyond our daily to-do list, helps us change how we do what we do in ways that add meaning to our work.
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#5. Difference makers know how to work loose, to model, fine-tune, and play with ideas before they execute them to find changes that are likely to succeed.
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#6. Understanding requires our own observation. Solutions frequently come in the form of mental pictures. The only prescription is to get out and use our eyes to see how things work.
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#7. The important thing is to not assume that good is good enough, because even good things can always, always find a way to get better.
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#8. That's what reframing your role is all about: thinking about how your work affects others, looking at the larger purpose of your work and whom it benefits, and seeing yourself as a potential difference maker.
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#10. The door to your own great work quest is about to swing wide open.
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#11. You know things; you understand things. You have a history and a work life unlike anyone else's. Respect it. Pay attention to it. Let it inspire curious ponderings and original thinking.
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#12. It's natural to feel limited by the constraints of our jobs from time to time. But rather than seeing those constraints as limitations, we can see them as a starting point for making a difference. And when we look at constraints that way, life gets interesting.
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#13. Difference making, by its very nature, is the art of taking something good and making it better. It's an act of fine-tuning, improving, and refining, not starting from zero.
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#14. People who do great work have a different set of criteria for declaring a job complete: whereas the typical definition of complete is "the work is done," the great work definition of complete is "a difference is made".
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#15. The truth is, we can't see what we aren't looking at.
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#16. Great Work begins when we take the time to ask if there's something new the world would love.
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#17. Each of us has a unique perspective on the world around us, an inner eye that has more to do with how we think than with what we see.
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#18. Job crafters are those who do what's expected (because it's required) and then find a way to add something new to their work. Something that delights. Something that benefits both the giver and the receiver.
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#19. Change is the catalyst of life and, likewise, the catalyst for all great work.
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#20. If you don't ask the right question, who will?
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#21. The truth is, when we see ourselves as a box on somebody's org chart, we're miscalculating our own potential.
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#22. The guiding mantra for connecting is this: it's just a conversation.
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#23. When you begin to see problems as road signs that say "great work possibility; turn here," you're on your way.
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#24. Call it what you will, it's about getting up off your chair, going where the action is, and seeing things firsthand. Because when we see things for ourselves, with our own two eyes, it changes us.
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#25. There is something important you should know: the most significant examples of great work, the most poignant, the most inspiring, the ones we know would take your breath away, we can't tell you about. They haven't happened yet. They're yours.
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#26. Conversations with people we don't usually talk to lead to ideas we wouldn't think of on our own.
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#27. We've all got crazy ideas that tickle and nag. Let's turn up the volume on these great work muses. Allow them to germinate, mature and grow.
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#29. Difference makers look with their own eyes from a variety of perspectives to see new possibilities.
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#30. It doesn't take any special training to ask the right question. Nor does it require a high IQ. The only real resource required to ask what people might love is time.
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