August 1 @ 4:43:32 a.m.
Think Different
Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer, one of my all-time favorite business thinkers, has some new research out that confirms one of Fast Company's long-held beliefs: that competing differently in a marketplace is strategy. In a new research paper, Pfeffer argues that the assumptions we frequently made as leaders often lead us astray.
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August 3 @ 5:30:35 a.m.
Book recommendation: The Tao is Silent
It is not, as Smullyan himself notes, a book about Chinese philosophy, so don't buy it as an introduction to Taoism. Smullyan is not giving an exposition of Eastern religion or philosophy here, although he does include a helpful bibliography for anyone who wants to follow up on that topic. (In fact some of his best essays have at least marginally to do with Western religion.)
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August 5 @ 2:39:42 a.m.
Meditation Tip
One has to keep the mind unruffled and not be affected by the fleeting phenomena around one. When the mind is unmoved, one will not be enslaved by worldly events.
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August 8 @ 3:02:08 a.m.
Skype
If you have not done so yet, you definitely should get yourself Skype, THE voice-over-internet telephone programme. It features the best connection quality, you can use it even with friends and clients who do not have it (yet), and it will save you a lot of money. Download it for free at www.skype.com. You can add/reach me under "dieter001". DL ... [MORE] |
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August 10 @ 5:15:43 a.m.
Bookrecommendation Spiritual Capital
Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live by (Danah Zohar)
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August 12 @ 3:48:04 a.m.
Two Wolves
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:
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August 16 @ 1:21:45 p.m.
Boardroom Buddha
Allan Holender emailed us this weekend to let us know about a project he's working on: A book to be titled Buddha in the Board Room. To shed some light on his work to date, Holender has launched a parallel blog, Buddhaspeaksbiz (http://buddhaspeaksbiz.blogspot.com/).
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August 19 @ 4:17:42 a.m.
Meditation Tip
ZEN STUDENT: So Master, is the soul immortal or not? Do we survive our bodily death or do we get annihilated? Do we really reincarnate? Does our soul split up into component parts which get recycled, or do we as a single unit enter the body of a biological organism? And do we retain our memories or not? Or is the doctrine of reincarnation false? Is perhaps the Christian notion of survival more correct? And if so, do we get bodily resurrected, or does our soul enter a purely Platonic spiritual realm?
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August 22 @ 5:47:34 a.m.
Do What You Love
I recently read Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford University commencement address. In it, Jobs describes a simple question he uses to measure how inspired he feels each day. Since the age of 17, he has been asking himself the same question every morning. "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" "Whenever the answer has been 'no' for too many days in a row," he goes on to say, "I know I need to change something."
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August 24 @ 11:07:29 a.m.
Offbeat Offsites
The New York Times reports today (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/business/23retreats.html)
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August 26 @ 4:34:04 a.m.
Meditation Thought
In spring, hundreds of flowers;
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August 29 @ 2:57:51 a.m.
Leading Ideas: Making Communication Work
"When it comes to improving performance, most organizations' problems can be traced to their inability to think and talk together at critical moments." -- Paraphrased from William Isaacs's book Dialogue, p.3
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August 31 @ 3:29:17 a.m.
Gross national happiness
Imagine a country where the measure of national progress is not gross national product, but gross national happiness. Such a country exists. It's located in the Himalayas, it's about the size of Switzerland, and it's called Bhutan. You can read about it here:
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