Inspired 2.0

And more true today?...

"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption of our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider to our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so." - Mahatma Gandhi

No comment...

“If you have enough meetings over a long period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve”. - Henderickson's Law

The beautiful truth...

“Breathe, breathe in the air, don't be afraid to care. Leave but don't leave me, look around and choose your own ground. For long you live and high you fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry.  And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.” - David Gilmour. The Pink Floyd.

The flexibility of opportunity...

“When I Practice, I am a Philosopher, when I teach, I am a Scientist, when I Demonstrate, I am an Artist.” - B.K.S. Iyengar Guru.

A warning to us all...

"We've had throwaway clothes, throwaway cars, and now we have throwaway people." - Joan Pounds. IT representative, Agilent

!!...

"I don't seek balance. I want to work, work, work." - Ann Livermore, Executive VP, Hewlett-Packard

Let’s hope so...

"Isn't it becoming a little bit sexier to be older?" - Crawford Hollingworth, Director, Headlightvision

The name of the game?...

“Everyone knows that the name of the game is what label you succeed in imposing on the facts”. - Cohen's Law:

The Paradigm shifted...

“If I’d asked them what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses !” - Henry Ford (On the value of market research when introducing brand new ideas)

And finally...

"Process and procedure are the last hiding place of people without the wit and wisdom to do their job properly" - David Brent, The Office

A Thoughtful 2007!!...

Act on Intelligence...

“Do service design solutions have anything to do with real life problems? Yes. Whether we "solve" them is another thing.” - Gill Wildman

Listen to the pulse...

“A lot depends on whether managers listen for the brilliance in their employees' ideas." - Shari Ballard, VP of Human Resources, Best Buy

Put in the effort...

“Making magic is a lot of hard work." - Eric Witt, Director of Legislative Affairs for the Governor of New Mexico

Open the mind...

“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master...” - Hunter S. Thompson

Use our experience...

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.” - Charles Pierce. Philosopher

Take everyone with us...

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who moulds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws." - President Abraham Lincoln

Have courage...

“Successful people spontaneously do things differently." - K. Anders Ericsson, author, "Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance"

Be real...

“Viral marketing is so not trusted by people." - Lee Ann Daly, former VP of marketing, ESPN

Be creative...

“Creativity is organic. You can't plan for it." - Richard Florida, Author, "The Flight of the Creative Class"

And finally...lets not take it all too seriously...

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.” - Hans Christian Andersen