What People Are Saying About Finishing Well

What People Are Saying About Finishing Well

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Finishing Well

Here are some great ideas from successful businessmen and women interviewed in Bob Buford’s Finishing Well: What People Who Really Live Do Differently! on living the second half of life to the fullest:

“I’ve always believed it’s much more important to have really great questions than really great answers. Really great answers tend to close things down, while really great questions tend to open things up.”

--Dan Sullivan, Founder and CEO, The Strategic Coach

“What matters is your life, what kind of a life you lead every single day, and the lives you touch. All the stuff that ostensible matters in the world of big business—the title, the perks, the income—actually, it doesn’t matter a bit, not even a little bit.”

--Tom Tierney, Former Chief Executive of Bain & Company, Founder of Bridgespan Group

“If people see their best years behind then, then they’re probably not finishing well, because you can’t finish well when you’re going backward.”

--Ken Blanchard, Chairman of the Ken Blanchard Companies, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

“Life during the retirement years needs to be free of the stresses we experienced during our working life. The tasks we undertake during these years need to be meaningful work that benefits other people, or another person. And, it needs to be fun!”

--Dr. Armand Nicholi, Author, Psychiatrist, Harvard Medical School

“The question I hear all the time,” Jim said, “is can a leader be effective in any context?’ In other words, is leadership a sort of generic skill that works in any environment? I believe the answer is no. Some remarkable individuals are able to cross over into other areas, but they’re more the exception than the rule. Anyone who changes fields ought to stop and consider how the rules of the game will change before sticking his or her neck out too far.”

--Jim Collins, author of Good the Great, researcher

“I have a stonr belief that we are clled to do what we do and when we’re called, we’re given the energy. And when we’re no longer called, we will not have the energy.”

--Francis Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management)

“It’s ongoing transformations. You keep starting over.”

--Laura Nash, Harvard Business School professor

“I think most of us are so noisy we can’t hear God’s will. We’re so busy talking, and listening to ourselves, and listening to other people’s advice that we don’t be quiet long enough to let God speak to us, and know that God is speaking to us. Consequently, we end up very unhappy.”

--Wilson Goode, Former Philadelphia Mayor and Youth Mentor

“One of my earliest illumination points was seeing the need first to understand and then to listen.”

--Don Williams, CEO, Trammell Crow, and Urban Renewal Innovator

“Eliminate the three things that are working against you: smoking, inactivity, and obesity.”

--Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Author and Pioneer in Preventative Medicine and Fitness