Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -Seneca ๐ฃ๏ธ "A student in a hurry learns the slowest." -Samurai teacher, to Banzo ๐ฃ๏ธ "Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough." -Alain de Botton ๐ฃ๏ธ "At the highest levels, learning isn't something you do to prepare for your work. Learning is...
27 days agoย โขย 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ Thank You! Thanks to everyone who responded earlier to my request for beta readers for my forthcoming leadership book. The response was way higher than I expected, and all of my beta reading slots for this round are filled. For anyone else who wants to check out an early draft, I'll share another opportunity later once the book is further along. ๐ฅ...
about 1 month agoย โขย 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "Change happens when people get outraged about other people's rights." -Ryan Holiday ๐ฃ๏ธ "Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing." -Marcus Aurelius ๐ฃ๏ธ "Society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." -Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ๐ฃ๏ธ...
about 2 months agoย โขย 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "A peasant that reads is a prince is waiting." -Walter Mosley ๐ฃ๏ธ "Hell is having to meet the person you could have become." -Unknown ๐ฃ๏ธ โLife is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.โ -Charles Schulz ๐ฃ๏ธ "Everyone who strives to reach his potential must pay a priceโin time, effort, resources, and opportunities...
2 months agoย โขย 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ โThe surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.โ -Eleanor Roosevelt ๐ฃ๏ธ "A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future." -Albert Einstein ๐ฃ๏ธ "Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose." -Naval Ravikant ๐ฃ๏ธ "In my experience, the more I go after that...
3 months agoย โขย 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. Want me to train your managers?I'm booking out my speaking calendar for 2026.Click here to email me re: in-person or virtual training. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "Normal is forgotten. Only weird survives." -George Mack ๐ฃ๏ธ "What makes you different or weird, that's your strength." -Meryl Streep ๐ฃ๏ธ โIf you want to be the successful fish in the pond, the key is...
3 months agoย โขย 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." -Teller (of Penn & Teller) ๐ฃ๏ธ "Doing the work is what makes you look like an overnight success ten years later." -Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson ๐ฃ๏ธ "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any...
4 months agoย โขย 3 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "Great stories happen to those that can tell them." -Ira Glass ๐ฃ๏ธ "Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom, and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories." -Alan Kay ๐ฃ๏ธ "I've come to the conclusion that what human beings were put here to do is story-gather. We take what knowledge we gather...
4 months agoย โขย 2 min read
Bite-sized insights for curious leaders & learners every other Sunday. Visit BobbyPowers.com or my Substack for more book recs & articles. ๐ฅ Insightful Quotes ๐ฃ๏ธ "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." -Marcus Aurelius ๐ฃ๏ธ "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard ๐ฃ๏ธ "There is someone somewhere who is looking at you and learning from you. You can be extraordinary in the most normal occasions and settings." -Kyle Carpenter (Medal of Honor...
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