My greatest strength as a consultant
is to be ignorant
and ask a few questions.
Peter Drucker
If there’s one thing there’s no shortage of, it’s ignorance. We’re surrounded by it. Saturated with it. Ignorance by its nature crowds out reason, commonsense and understanding.
Yet we seem to accept it as normal. We’re apparently willing to live with it. We [...]
Archive for May, 2008
More Ignorance Please?
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Decisions, Innovation, Life, Management, Managing, Problem Solving, Soft Skills, change management, leadership on May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Future is Plural
Posted in Belief, Challenges, Change, Decisions, Life, Love, Self Reflection, change management, leadership on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Somebody’s got to be the guardian
of the long term.
Marina V. N. Whitman
Nothing just happens, there’s always a cause. There’s little we can do about the bulk of it. Gravity rules landslides, electricity controls the lightning, and Sun and Wind take care of the weather. Mother Nature aside, most of the rest is under our influence, [...]
Working for Change
Posted in Challenges, Change, Decisions, Life, Self Reflection, Work, Working on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unless the job means more than the pay,
it will never pay more.
H. Bertram Lewis
We’re all potentially worth more than we earn – that’s a given. But for all of us to receive more than we make, is the road to eventual ruin. Output can never exceed total input… for very long.
We self select ourselves into [...]
Consistency vs. Integrity
Posted in Belief, Change, Decisions, Ethics, Life, Self Reflection on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consistency requires you
to be as ignorant today
as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
We’re not who we were yesterday. To attempt to stay the same is to defy Time’s purpose. Time passes, we change.
Consistency of thought and opinion assumes a stagnation of knowledge and a hardening of our reasons. Even if the information stays the same, [...]
