To do a job effectively, one must set priorities. Too many people let their ‘in’ basket set the priorities. On any given day, unimportant but interesting trivia pass through an office; one must not permit these to monopolize his time. The human tendency is to while away time with unimportant matters that do not require […]
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room…Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” – Seth Godin
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Change is good. You go first.” – Anonymous In her blog post, “What? You want me to go first?” Connie Moore writes about her thoughts after seeing the sign above in a store. Readers of this blog will likely relate to her ah-ha moment realizing how little about change discussions includes emphasis on going first.
If you ask me what I have come to do in this world, I who am an artist, I will reply: I am here to live my life out loud.” – Emile Zola Here’s to a 2012 that is lived out loud, sharing our art with the world.
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?… The whole climate of
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Science can tell us how to do many things, but it can not tell us what ought to be done.” – Author Unknown In most workplaces, everyone knows who the internally motivated people are and most everyone doesn’t like those people. Why? I’d offer it’s because most of the internally motivated people you meet in
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not.” – Abraham Lincoln July 22, 1860 in a letter to George Latham Be brave and act my friends. Drive change. You will
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller It’s good, as we start the week, to remember that fighting the existing reality doesn’t work. Sadly, I can admit I’ve wasted many a week fighting the existing the reality.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” – Don Marquis As I blog on the eve of my birthday, my thoughts turn to age and how organizations (if they were conscious beings) seem fascinated with age. You have the young-up-and-comers and
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