Virtual Graffiti... (45)
“Could you change when change really mattered?” - Alan Deutschman, Author, “Change or Die”
“When you think you know something, that is the most perfect barrier against learning.” Frank Herbert
“You can't find out if you're right until you take the risk." - Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun Microsystems
“The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else” - E.E. Cummings
“How you think matters more than what you think.” - John Maloney
“Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it.” - Frank Herbert
“It is not until we understand the law of karma, or cause and effect, that we are inspired to embark on the path to end suffering. Negative thoughts and actions produce negative results and conditions, just as positive thoughts and actions produce positive results and conditions.” - Dali lama
“As opposed to just being this new digital age, I think it's this new age of transparency and kind of obligation that everything that a brand does is a message, and it needs to be done artfully and truthfully and intelligently, because that's how people are ultimately going to evaluate brands that they want to do business with. And I think ultimately brands are going to become media.” - Lee Clow
“Any human utterance of a certain weight contains more than the author may have been immediately aware of at the time." - by Joseph Ratzinger
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." The Fox and the Hedgehog is a attributed to the Greek warrior-poet Archilochus (680bc-645bc): And later, also to an essay by Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997). BUT - “Whatever your ‘big thing’ is - supply chains, communities, management, etc - it may be time to let-go and think different.” - John Maloney
“There is one thing that astounds me more than all others - the impotence of force to organize anything.” - Napoleon Bonaparte (paraphrased)
And finally...
“If you must label the absolute, use it’s proper name; Temporary.” - Frank Herbert
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“The Definition of Definition: The wilderness of ‘idea’ trapped within a wall of words.” - Unknown
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Hindsight's, Insights and Foresights... (44)
“Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you.” - Hugh MacLeod
“Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.” - William Shenstone
“You can be cool in conflict if you are not interested in the battle, but this can only be achieved if you have already fed the fires of your own rage.” - Amy & Arny Mindell
“The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead”
Jack Welch
"Your problems don't come because you don't know how to calculate entropies or to design plates. They come because you don't know about people. Our best comes out when we have honest discussions. Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals. You all have the delusion that it's your business to sell hardware. But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well. Right now, you are in an organization that has poor quality and slow delivery. You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks." - Fernando Flores
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” - Stephen R. Covey
And finally...
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” - Buddha
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“When land is the measure of wealth, then scarcity rules. In a knowledge society we require an economics of abundance, and there is no science for that yet.” - Phil Hood
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Gems, Pearls and Nuggets... (43)
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“Forecasting is difficult especially when it concerns the future” - Anon
“Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!” - Anon
“An instinct for staging, a strong visual imagination, an innate musicality. A critical facility, a background in business history, and an ability to take the heat, ride the lows and keep a level head around praise and criticism.” - Michael Bloom from Thinking Like a Film Director
“Before enlightenment, chop wood - carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood - carry water.” - Zen Saying
“If you really want something, the world will conspire to help you.” - Iftekhar Enayetullah. Co-Founder, Waste Concern
“Environment, social, and governance issues are now commanding dramatically more attention.” - Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief U.S. Investment Strategist, Goldman Sachs
“If you're not confused - you don't know what's going on!” - George Carlin
“Ownership has always been a symbol of affluence in the west, but beyond a certain point less becomes more and the affluent want to go beyond the material. They begin to look for other things.” - Anon
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman
“The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism...” - Hunter S. Thompson
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Snippets and nuggets...
“When a man has put a limit on what he WILL do, he has put a limit on what he CAN do.” - Charles Schwab
“I'm here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction.” - Mark Zuckerberg. Founder and CEO, Facebook
“We live in an extraordinary time. Our thinking styles are severing us from our families, our religions, our ideologies, and nature. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, business, and education sources of anxiety and un-fulfilment. At the same time, thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship, and community can exist. Let us design this world together.” - Fernando Flores
“A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.” - Mohandas Ghandi
“Smart people know what to do, genius knows what to think. We frame and therefore determine everything by how we choose to think about things. Resolving conflict is essentially helping to reframe. All creation begins with a thought. There are sub-atomic particles that only appear when the energy of thought is focused on them - we create physical matter from the power of our thinking.” - Stewart L. Levine
“The formal organisation chart is for efficiency; the community is for effectiveness.” - Laurence Lock Lee
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.” - Mohandas Ghandi
“Community is the state. Network is the dynamic of the community. Therefore, the community cannot exist if it is not common-unity = community. The network is the energy of the bond of trust and care. The community is the recipient and container of such energy, converting this energy into innovation and dedication, to prepare the present to adapt for the future. "Together" is the reason for community to exist, networking is the activity of a living community.” - Benoit Couture
“When that authenticity is compromised, the brand enters decline.” - Tim Manners, publisher, Reveries
“Authentic leaders understand that leading is about serving others.” - Bill George, Professor at Harvard Business School
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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