THE DREAM MANAGER
Posted by: Brian Webb | Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 | 10:30 PM
Mark Twain once said… “He who hasn’t read great books has no advantage over those that can’t read” I am going through a great book at the moment that’s really caught me off guard. I am only half way through this book, so this post isn’t meant to be a highlight summary of the book per se.
The Dream Manager is a book I picked up because the preface; and title of course, caught my attention. It spoke to the escalating epidemic and corporate confusion over how to discover; and even more critically, retain talented, quality driven staff leadership.
Well, while this book certainly speaks to this exigent need… it shouted to me something far greater.
It stealthily directed me to recognize that I had stopped dreaming. I mean… it’s not that I have no dreams… it’s rather that I had unwittingly allowed my dreams to take the infamous back seat to my day-to-day urgencies. I had lost sight of my dreams.
Many of you can relate to this all too well. I would encourage you to passionately reengage your dreams and shift them to the forefront of your focus and intention. Don’t let the urgent rob you of the important! Aggressively and intentionally place in front of you people, images, systems, books, accountibilities, space, time… anything… anything at all that perpetuates the relentless pursuit of your dreams.
I’ll leave you with some inspiring wisdom.
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
Patrick Henry
“A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”
T.E. Lawrence
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”
William Shakepeare
Please feel free to share your views and comments. I’d be thrilled to hear from you.
