Name the greatest of all inventors:
Accident.
Mark Twain
X-Rays, microwaves, rubber and Velcro, were all accidents waiting impatiently to happen… to the person willing and smart enough to pay attention.
If we agree that nothing happens without a reason, then when something happens unexpectedly it means there’s a particular “reason” we don’t yet understand properly. “Unexpected” is merely [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Oops There Goes Another Opportunity!
Posted in Challenges, Change, Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving, change management on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Laughing Aloud Allowed
Posted in Change, Communicating, Creativity, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Life Balance, Self Reflection, communication, humor, leadership on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you can make a man laugh,
you can make him think
and make him like and believe you.
Alfred E. Smith
Humour is our physical and emotional response to the perverse incongruities of life. Without a sense of humour, we stumble from cosmic incident to comic accident, never seeing the connection. Our belly laughs, are wry detectors.
We laugh [...]
Think what they haven’t Thunk
Posted in Belief, Business, Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Life, Problem Solving, Self Reflection, Soft Skills, change management, leadership on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We cannot unthink
unless we are insane.
Arthur Koestler
Each thought shapes the world. Desire creates action, actions become habit, habits become the way we’ve always done things around here. Through our thoughts we become the world makers.
The sane live in the world the way others have built it. In thinking the same as others, we can walk [...]
Whence the Passion for the Fight
Posted in Belief, Change, Decisions, Ethics, Life, Love, Self Reflection, Trust, communication, leadership, religion on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What makes enemies of people,
if not the eagerness,
the passion for the same thing.
Bernard Berenson
We are drawn asunder and pulled together by the things we both hold dear. Peace and security, a land to live upon and to rest in peace beneath, these are our common hopes and dreams.
We’re divided by memories of [...]
In the Shadow of Mountains
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Life, Self Reflection, Trust, leadership, religion on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My father considered a walk
among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Our concerns pale under the gaze of silent crags. It’s not the height of the towering stones, but their permanence that sits in silent judgment. Nature never makes us feel small, it can only make us aware of who we are.
Much [...]
Wisdom from Strangers
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Communicating, Decisions, Life, Love, Problem Solving, Self Reflection, Trust on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I give myself, sometimes,
admirable advice,
but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The further recipients are removed from the givers of advice, the more likely they’ll pay attention.
We never listen to our own advice. If we were that smart, we wouldn’t need advice in the first place. Besides, what we thought was the right thing [...]
Where the Fault is
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Creativity, Decisions, Life, Love, Self Reflection, Soft Skills, change management, leadership on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A problem is a difference
between things as desired
and things as perceived.
Gerald Weinberg
Most of us don’t really believe in Magic. We don’t believe that merely thinking about how we’d like things to be will make it so. Yet if we watch ourselves closely, not only do most of us seem to believe in Magic, but we’re [...]
The Sound of Contradiction
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Communicating, Creativity, Life, Life Balance, Problem Solving, Self Reflection, change management, leadership on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If error is corrected
whenever it is recognized as such,
the path of error
is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach
There are no contradictions in nature; the world is the way it is and was meant to be. Water’s wet and ice is cold, rocks fall down and we grow old. The world is as it is, our challenge [...]
A Love of Trust
Posted in Management on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To be trusted is a greater compliment
than to be loved.
George Macdonald
Love is a random, irrational and exhilarating emotion. It can arise in an instant when meeting a stranger or spring in glorious ambush from an old friendship. There’s no reason behind it, no thought, plan or scheme. Love happens and enthralls us.
Love requires [...]
