You’ll know Dan Pink through his cool books Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind.

Here he is giving a commencement speech (and drawing on his most recent book, the manga style The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need).  It’s advice to new graduates – and rings equally true for anyone at any level in any organization.

Out of many, my favourite quote is:

“There are massive returns to doggedness”.

It’s so true.  Hard work trumps time and time again persistence.  My friend Andrea Lee asked me a similar question the other day as to why I’d succeeded to the extent I had.  And I said:  Mainly, persistence.

Here are the two parts of Dan’s speech:

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