Thinking outside of the box will often get you branded as a troublemaker.

Thinking outside of the box will often get you branded as a troublemaker.

Someone once complimented me by saying, "you don't think out of the box; you don't even know where the box is."

Troublemakers disrupt the status quo, and so many status quotes need to be disrupted.

Moment by moment, the world isn't an ever-changing place; what was true merely fractions of a second ago is not true now, and again it just changed. Did you notice that? The essence of creativity is seeing the change.

Change is the only constant we have. Holding on to the past, hoping for different outcomes from the same stale behavior that didn't work numerous times before, is insanity.

Some troublemakers like to be contrary, but they're not genuine troublemakers; they're just an annoyance.

To understand the genuine troublemakers look for that list at the bottom of the US declaration of Independence or read what Martin Luther King has to say, or George Carlin, or Dave Chappelle. It’s great when we can laugh at ourselves, especially when we understand when what they say is very accurate.

Truth is the key to real troublemaking. But, living in the truth requires great humility. Not humility in the sense of being meek but humility in living close to the primary and simple truth of life.

The older I get, the lower my bulls**t tolerance is. Annoyance troublemakers seek to manipulate opinion, cloud the truth, and profit from disinformation. Some realize what they're doing; others are too stupid to know the difference; I loathe the former too many are in politics.

Bureaucracy in business is the preservation of behavior inconsistent with a company's growth (its maintenance). Companies are the institutionalization and organization of ideas that produce a profit. Without new ideas that can be transformed into a profit, The organizations become zombies.

Too many companies seek "innovation" as the vaccination against zombification, but they don't tolerate their troublemakers. Troublemakers that seek the safety and security that a bureaucracy provides don't last long as employees. They do better as consultants.

There are two kinds of consultants, ones that fix things and ones that just write about fixing things.

The valuable troublemakers speak plainly and simply about ideas that drive business.

Long-life the troublemakers' makers.