The document emphasizes the importance of big thinking, passion, and risk-taking for success in both work and life. It outlines key steps for achieving significant goals, including starting with a clear vision, embracing learning through action, and fostering community support. It also highlights the potential for impactful change through bold initiatives, illustrated by real-world examples like charity: water and pencils of promise.

1. BIGHow big thinking about impact, working with
passion, and getting comfortable with risk can
propel leaders to success in work and life.

2. 10x vs. 10% change.

3. The originality paradox - Seth Godin
There are a billion people trying to do something important for the first time. These
people are connected by the net, posting, creating, daring to leap first.
It's hard, because the number of people racing with you to be original is huge.
The numbers are so daunting that the chances that you will create something that
resonates, spreads and changes the culture are really close to zero.
But it's also certain that someone will. In fact, there's a 100% chance that someone
will step up with an action or a concept so daring that it resonates with us.
Nearly zero and certain. At the same time.
Pick your odds, decide what you care about and act accordingly.

4. – Mark Zuckerberg
The biggest risk is not taking any
risk. In a world that’s changing
really quickly, the only strategy that
is guaranteed to fail is not taking
any risk.

5. You can change the future with your impact.

6. Your passion will inspire others to join you.

7. Big bets are placed on big opportunities.

8. Ride the exhilaration of risk.

9. I’ve sunk and soared. Soaring is
better, even when when the
adrenaline makes you dizzy.

10. Get started.
Ten steps.

11. I WANT TO ___________________________________Your big a*# goal here.
1. Start with the end.

12. 2. Believe you can succeed. Then do the work.
Vision
Inspire PlanInnovate Measure Team

13. What about strategy?
“In real life, strategy is actually very
straigh4orward. You pick a general
direc<on and implement like hell.”
- Jack Welch, long/me CEO of GE

14. 3. Even big change starts small - with one passionate individual.

15. 4. Shout or whisper, but share your vision.

16. “A ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he
was dividing his class into two groups.
All those on the le@ side of the studio, he said, would
be graded solely on the quan<ty of work they
produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
On the final day of class he would bring in his
bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quan<ty”
group: 50 pounds of pots rated an “A”, 40 pounds a
“B”, and so on.
Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to
produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get
an “A”.
5. Learn by doing.
Source: Michael Edson, Web and New Media Strategist

17. At grading <me the works of highest quality
were all produced by the group being graded
for quan/ty.
While the “quan<ty” group was busily churning
out piles of work—and learning from their
mistakes — the “quality” group had sat
theorizing about perfec<on and learned very
liOle.
Learn by doing.
Source: Michael Edson, Web and New Media Strategist

18. 6. Resources are not an excuse for waiting.
Video: NARAYANAN KRISHNAN, A companion to the forgotten

19. 7. Embrace speed. Speed + Learning = Progress

20. 8. Measure success and failure.

21. 9. Find your tribe.

22. 10. Celebrate every little win; then up the ante.

23. 11. Bonus thought for nonprofits…
Strive to be so successful that
you put yourself out of business,
because the problem is solved.

24. Some examples from my life.

25. Some examples from my life.

26. Some examples from my life.

27. Some examples from the real world: Charity: Water

28. Some examples from the real world: Pencils of Promise
It started with a pencil in 2008.
Today, Pencils of Promise has
built more than 300 schools.

29. Some examples from the real world: GirlTrek.

30. What are your bold goals?
What’s holding you back?

31. Hands up!

32. Ready. Set. GO BIG!