Posts tagged “Leadership”
What you stand for and what it means for your business
How lessons learnt twenty years ago are changing the business I am a part of today.
Forget tailor-made, just get it second-hand.
In an offline note a good friend challenges the concept of new, tailor-made companies. Instead he asks, “What about companies that need tailors … companies that need a new dress, ugly companies, those ones that need new shoes … …
Wholemindedness: The brilliance of an unfettered mind
Time management’s greatest gift is wholemindedness.
Deliberate attention to presence
Every moment is the last we will ever have.
The brilliance of moments: how success is ultimately determined by now
I travel from Edmonton to Calgary and back almost every week. It’s a three hour drive one-way, so I have a big chunk of time to listen to podcasts. This week I listened to an interview, by Todd at …
Advice for visionaries
Christopher Alexander in an interview with Kenneth Baker:
“If you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. … If you’re working correctly, the feeling doesn’t
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philologr: platitudinous
platitudinous — plati·tu’di·nous — a derivative of plat·i·tude (plăt’ĭ-tūd, -tyūd), a noun meaning a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. Without freshness or appeal because of overuse: banal, bromidic, clichéd, …
Conditions of success
On the heels of my heartfelt yop – Frickin’ amazing vs. the long tail – as if guided by benevolent deities, I found “What really works.” With bemused resignation I note the publication date of July 2003 – if I …