Posted in Business, Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Management, Managing, Problem Solving, Soft Skills, Training, change management, leadership on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No man thoroughly understands a truth
until he has contended against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our experience is a great tool with which to teach others, but until they actually touch the ice, they cannot know what it feels like. No amount of persuasion, instruction or book learning can convey the reality of hard, cold, slippery water.
Our experience [...]
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Communicating, Ethics, Life, Love, change management, leadership on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The true opposite of Love
is not hate
but indifference.
Joseph Fletcher
Love in all its degrees and variations, is the glue holding us together. From the passion inciting two people to become one, to the caring that compels us to lay down our lives for others, Love is what binds both the world and us.
Hate is a twisted [...]
Posted in Business, Change, Creativity, Life, Life Balance, Management, Self Reflection, leadership on January 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly
unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
The simple act of setting down a burden is a joy by itself. Taking the afternoon off when the work is piled high, refreshes deeper than the same break taken when nothing needs doing.
It’s not just the relief of a [...]
Posted in Belief, Business, Challenges, Change, Communicating, Creativity, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Management, Problem Solving, Self Reflection on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The things we see
are the mind’s best bet
as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
When all we expect are trees, we’ll never see the elephant until it moves. The gray lumbering movement breaks the pattern of stillness and invalidates the view of “there are just trees out there.” The world blurs and then precipitates a majestic [...]
Posted in Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Problem Solving, Self Reflection, leadership on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Windows of opportunity exist
for only a brief moment in time,
you have to have vision in order to spot them,
and take advantage of them.
John Sculley
The thought begins as follows… “What if they…” and before we know it… it escapes our grasp. The flaw is in the seduction of ease. Life is always easier if we imagine [...]
Posted in Challenges, Decisions, Ethics, Life, Managing, Project Management, Self Reflection, change management, leadership on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to enjoy it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Deadlines were never meant to be one-sided. Originally labeled as the line between certain captivity and potential freedom, they’ve become merely a mark in time separating the end of one project from the start of [...]
Posted in Challenges, Change, Communicating, Life, Self Reflection, change management, leadership on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am I plus my surroundings
and if I do not preserve the latter,
I do not preserve myself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
We are defined by family, tradition, the things we value and even those we take for granted. Remove our context and we remove the chains securing us to the pier.
Context is everything. Erase the white from [...]
Posted in Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Problem Solving, Self Reflection on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In every work of genius
we recognize our own rejected thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There’s no shortage of great ideas, our thoughts are crowded to bursting with them.
The shortage is in our ability to assist them through to fruition.
Every negative thought, every question unvoiced, every objection to something new or unusual, is a self erected defense against genius. [...]
Posted in Life, Self Reflection on January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May you live
all the days
of your Life
Jonathan Swift
We’ve just passed through a ‘holiday’ season… so they’re over now? We sort our numbered days into small piles of the joyous and huge mounds of the mundane.
On ‘these’ days we will celebrate, and on the remainder? We’ll just exist.
In this moment there’s goodwill to all Men, and [...]
