It’s okay to rest now. Try to get some sleep.” – My mother I can remember my mother uttering these words to me several times growing up. They were usually spoken when I was upset about something, exhausted, but wouldn’t give in. They were said calmly and the love behind them was clear. I share […]
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Lali Masriera via Compfight I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby In this holiday season where pleasing others is center stage, please accept my permission to not please everyone. Some people just won’t get what you are trying to do with your
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man In
Organizations simply don’t change unless the people in them change.” – Andrea Shapiro, Creating Contagious Commitment True. If you want your organization to change, why not change yourself first? It’s the only change you truly control. Go first. Bernat Casero via Compfight
There’s a great line in Admiral H. G. Rickover’s “Doing a Job” speech that reads, In my organization, there are no formal job descriptions or organizational charts. Responsibilities are defined in a general way, so that people are not circumscribed. All are permitted to do as they think best and to go to anyone and
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi My trip to Wisconsin to attend my grandfather’s funeral has made me nostalgic for all things Wisconsin, from cheese curds to deer hunting to Lutheran jokes to Vince Lombardi. Now, I should note that my grandfather was a Viking’s fan, so he
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.” – Douglas MacArthur In honor of Veteran’s Day, let us remember to be brave as those who have served and are serving our
Voltaire said: It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.” and Photo courtesy of Wendell via Compfight It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” among other things. Why would those words matter to those of us driving change? Because as you drive change you
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We need fearless criticism of dishonest men, and of honest men on any point where they go wrong; but even more do we need criticism which shall be truthful both in what it says and in what it leaves unsaid—truthful in works and truthful in the impression it designs to leave upon the readers’ or
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This comes from C.S. Lewis’ Miracles. It is a powerful passage: “All over the world, until quite modern times, the direct insights of the mystics and the reasonings of the philosophers percolated to the mass of the people by authority and tradition; they could be received by those who were no great reasoners themselves in
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