Tim Elmore

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” - Margaret Mead

Too much overcorrecting can make young children feel as though they don't measure up to parents' standards.

When we adults attempt to control the outcomes in order to provide students and young adults a break, it usually backfires.

When parents feel they must give their child every advantage possible, life becomes a competition to provide, resource, even spoil the child.

Generally speaking, we do not reach our capacity unless we’re placed in demanding situations.

Bridge, Not Badge: Leadership Through Connection and Guidance

Our world needs resilient adults, not fragile ones.

In general, adults now define “hardship” very differently than we once did. We assume our young people are fragile, and actually invite fragility in response.

Personal values are like guidelines to live by.

Work to build interdependence, rather than codependence.

Healthy leaders must be “humbitious”—both humble and ambitious.

Every crisis can be a catalyst for progress when handled well

You should view happiness as a by-product not a pursuit.

Every leader has two sets of customers: external and internal. Your external customers are the consumers who buy from you, and your internal ones are the colleagues you work with. You need to sell to both. After 45 years in my career—I now believe that if I take care of my internal customers well, they’ll take care of the external ones. But something has happened since the pandemic ended.

What if we were descriptive instead of prescriptive in our leadership?

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." - Margaret Fuller

Two Critical Gaps: Why Gen Z Arrives Unprepared for Work