Archive for June, 2006
The gift I’d give
Ever looked at your CEO? Ever watched the Prime Minister when he isn’t speaking? I don’t mean: glanced at his shoes or hair style. I mean really looked – actually observed.
Did you see her eyes darting around the room, …
The edge of greatness
Look across all “great” achievements and imagine what it was like to be on the verge of those things. Imagine the youthful, burning passion from which that accomplishment was borne.
Look across the spectrum of actions and decisions and sacrifices …
Things as they are (rather than what we wish they were).
Retro post: Revised based on “Look!” from November 30, 2004.
John Oliver (past President of DowElanco Canada Inc., a joint venture between Dow Chemical and Eli Lillys), once told me what he looks at when considering novel products. …
What’s in?
Retro post: September 12, 2004
(A Billy Collins poem. Rated PG)
Purity
My favourite time to write is in the late afternoon,
weekdays, particularly Wednesdays.
This is how I go about it:
I take a fresh pot of tea into …
Bahauddin’s flower
Bahauddin, the father of Rumi:
…When I deeply know my senses, I feel in them the way to God and the purpose of living:
Look at this surprising flower
which cannot be seen, and yet
its fragrance cannot be
Where taking is giving
Purposeful thought
Innovation begets innovation
Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Guns, Germs and Steel. In it Diamond describes one of the key principles of innovation: technology begets technology.
Using examples of neighbouring New Guinean, North American Indian, and Mexican Indian …