Lisa Sherwell

Connecting companies and people with purpose, Chief People Officer - Suse. Wherever you go, go with all your heart - Confucius

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Time doesn't heal psychological wounds. Perspective does.

Days passed don't guarantee insight gained. Seeing last year's disappointments through an old lens is more upsetting than viewing yesterday's setbacks from a new angle.

Time creates distance. Reflection offers wisdom.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

brandenburg gate, berlin right now

quite a statement from the german government

[Lisa Sherwell @lisasherwell]

@naledimashishi There are pros and cons with with any change. Some aspects of your lifestyle will significantly improve. Others will be worse. It’s a trade off

[Lisa Sherwell @lisasherwell]

@rickygervais @rickygervais you are a masterclass on how to deal with trolls. Thank you

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The older I get, the more I realize that success at most things isn't about finding the one trick or secret nobody knows about.

It's consistently doing the boring, mundane things everyone knows about but is too unfocused/undisciplined to do.

Get good at boring.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Every kid should learn that humility and kindness aren't signs of weakness. They're strengths of character.

Recognizing your faults doesn't mean you lack self-esteem. It shows you have self-awareness.

Showing compassion doesn't mean you lack backbone. It shows you have heart.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Hey managers: people can love a job without letting it take over their lives.

Detaching from work doesn’t reflect the absence of passion. It reveals the presence of other priorities.

Being plugged in 24/7 is a recipe for burnout. Setting boundaries is vital to well-being.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A new reason to work out in the morning: it builds confidence to overcome obstacles.

On days when people exercise before work, they’re more engaged and less exhausted. They see tasks as challenges to conquer rather than threats to avoid.

Early wins boost energy and efficacy.

[Lisa Sherwell @lisasherwell]

@UKRunChat Love my Garmin epix. Had the Apple and I prefer this for runs. Fantastic battery

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Understand that stress is caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them. https://t.co/1B40509jGz

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

When you burn people out, you push them out. Stars are the first to leave—they have the most opportunities.

The solution is not to pile on the perks. It’s to pinpoint the root causes of overload and design more manageable jobs.

If you want to keep people, stop exhausting them.

[Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) @ArjunMahadevan]

Ellen Latham suffered a major career setback at 40 when she was suddenly fired from her dream job as an exercise physiologist at a high-end spa in Miami.

She was devastated.

But she didn’t give up.

Fourteen years later, at the age of 54, she founded Orangetheory Fitness, a science-based fitness franchise that now boasts over 1M members, does $1B+ in sales, and has 1,200 studios around the globe.

Here are 8 inspirational quotes from Ellen:

1. “Create your “why”, and you gain clarity and motivation.”

2. “I’m Italian, so carbs are something we will never give up.”

3. “Focus on what you do have and your talents, know your worth.”

4. “When I hear a problem, I look for solutions. That’s just who I am.”

5. “You have to believe in your potential one thousand percent.”

6. “Take advantage of the colorful thinking of women. It will add to your business.”

7. “I’m going to leave a legacy of changing and improving the world.”

8. “You find great happiness when you find your purpose in life.”

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It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies.

Do these famous cases reflect a generalizable pattern?

Research shows that among the top 0.1% of startups based on growth in their first five years, the founders started their companies, on average, when they were 45 years old.

It's never too late to turn your dream idea, into your dream business.

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That's a wrap. Hope you enjoyed these inspirational quotes from Ellen. If you did:

1. Follow me @arjunmahadevan for more like this (and for more on how to turn your dream idea, into your dream US business with @doolaHQ)

2. RT this, if you can, to share this advice with a friend

[Lisa Sherwell @lisasherwell]

@SamMurphyRuns @UKRunChat That’s absolutely me and running mate! We’d happily chat to you!

[Wise Chimp @wise_chimp]

This

[Thomas Di Giacomo @t_di_g]

Upstream, downstream, redistributors, users, coders, writers, bloggers, designers, marketers, customers, partners, enthusiasts, hobbists etc. everyone is contributing to the evolution of open source and should be unrestricted to do so.

[SUSE @SUSE]

Due to Red Hat's decision to remove public access to RHEL source code, Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo shares our position. The principles of open source are dear to us. We believe that the freedom to access, modify, and distribute software should remain open to all:https://t.co/IBlemyKOCM

[Ivo Totev @totev]

During #SUSECON23, @SUSE's CEO, @dpvleeuwen, talked to Philippe Ensarguet, VP Software Engineering at @orange, about their transformation projects, the importance of open source, and why they chose to work with SUSE.
Watch their conversation here: https://t.co/oBlpnxYdY4

[SUSE @SUSE]

📢 We are 24 hours away from #SUSECON23 in Munich! From business to technical topics, we have speaking sessions addressing your core needs.
👉 Make the most of your #SUSECON23 experience. Check out our sessions catalog and build your unique agenda here: https://t.co/H5nHkQxCEz

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Colin Jost & Michael Che are the longest-tenured Weekend Update anchors in SNL history.

But after their first few episodes back in 2014, an NBC executive called a meeting with SNL producer, Lorne Michaels.

“Do you think Jost and Che are working?” the exec asked.

Michaels said,

"No."

"Oh," the exec said, "you know?"

Yes, Michaels said. He said he was well aware that his new Weekend Update anchors were not performing all that well.

"But it's a thing," Michaels told the exec. "People have to be bad before they can be good."

He likes to use the analogy of an ugly baby:

"All babies are ugly (unless they're your baby), but after three months, everyone says, 'What a beautiful baby.' You just have to live through that period of people not being good."

Takeaway 1:

Lorne Michaels said people are bad before they are good. And what's true of people is true of just about all creative work.

The co-founder of Pixar Ed Catmull, for instance, calls early mock-ups of Pixar movies—coincidentally—“ugly babies.”

“They are not beautiful, miniature versions of the adults they will grow up to be,” Catmull writes.

“They are truly ugly: awkward and unformed, vulnerable and incomplete. They need nurturing—in the form of time and patience—in order to grow.”

Takeaway 2:

Colin Jost and Michael Che, Lorne Michaels told the NBC exec, just needed some time to get through the period of being bad.

The record producer Rick Rubin talks about how it’s an underrated ability: the ability to sit with discomfort through that period of being bad.

Talking with his fellow multi-Grammy-winning producer Finneas O’Connell, Rubin said, “There’s a great deal of patience involved."

Because, he said, everything is bad for a while before it gets good.

Finneas agreed, saying,

“I think it’s shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good.

It blows my mind.

It’s like when someone’s solving a Rubik's Cube, and it looks like they’re so far from solving it right before they solve it.

When you’re in the middle of something—you listen to it, and you’re like, ‘Tomorrow, this might get amazing, but today, it’s so bad.’

The exciting thing is that it’s every time.”

“Every time,” Rubin repeats.

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“You’re only as good as you’re willing to be bad…You’re never going to get good unless you’re willing to be bad.” — Randall Stutman

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