Crossing boundaries: The ability to cross boundaries can make someone a game changer.

Thinking outside the box: If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve likely always thought outside the box.

Overburdened: You can’t think far or even near into the future if you’re overburdened by day-to-day demands.

Cash flow: In order to take your time and create something much bigger, you need to have a system in place that guarantees cash flow.

Coachability: You have to be self-aware in order to be coachable.

Know your abilities: Part of being self-aware involves knowing where your abilities start and stop, and so being open to collaborating with other people’s abilities.

Always obvious: How confident you are or aren’t is always obvious in your communication with other people.

Lacking confidence: When you’ve given way to others’ skepticism and you’re no longer sold yourself on what you’re talking about, your lack of confidence and seeming lack of ambition reject all of the elements of what would attract people to you.

Every 90 days: If you take the time to step back and reflect once every quarter, it keeps you from getting too far down the wrong track.

Connecting innovations: Sometimes, a major innovation can come from connecting two other innovations.

Easier than ever: There’s been collaboration throughout history, but technology has made it easier than ever to collaborate with people all around the world.

Your own game: Creating your own game and not trying to fit into anyone else’s gives you a freedom that will open up a whole host of other things.

Capabilities focus: If you can think past someone’s business and just assess what their capabilities are, you can see how in applying some of those capabilities or collaborating with those people, your own capabilities can jump.

Future commitment: Commitment means that you have a mental vision of the future that’s bigger and better in some way than anything you’re doing now, and you buy into this vision emotionally and intellectually.

Uniquely capable company: You have to have a very clear idea of how your company is uniquely capable in the marketplace in relationship to other entrepreneurs.

Wills and won’ts: You should be clear right off the bat about things you’re willing to do and things you aren’t. Your values and principles hold you together as an individual and as a company.

Credibility grows: If something grows in the marketplace, it’s because there’s credibility involved.

Years and moments: It can take many years to build up your credibility, but only moments for it to be destroyed.