January 2 @ 5:14:42 a.m.
2006: Let’s tackle the major challenge of our time
At the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis outside Vienna, Austria, many years ago, a senior officer from the United Nations closed his presentation by saying, “I’ve dealt with many different problems around the world, and I’ve concluded that there is only one real problem: over the past hundred years, the power that technology has given us has grown beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, but our wisdom has not. If the gap between our power and our wisdom is not redressed soon, I don’t have much hope for our prospects.”
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January 4 @ 7:00:38 a.m.
Decisions, especially bad ones
"There is no stigma attached to recognising a bad decision in time to install a better one."
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January 6 @ 9:36:40 a.m.
Meditation Thought
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
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January 9 @ 8:19:17 a.m.
Advantage
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. "
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January 11 @ 5:57:17 a.m.
A good reason
"I felt that I could make a difference . That's the best reason to go into business." - Richard Branson , Chairman, Virgin Group
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January 13 @ 6:34:59 a.m.
Meditation Thought
The whole function of meditation is to see oneself, to accept oneself, to love oneself.
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January 16 @ 6:25:37 a.m.
Growing Smart
Everyone wants to grow: more customers, more employees, more revenue, more profit. But breakneck growth triggers new questions: How do you maintain a close-knit culture and find good people to bring into it? How do you keep the agility of a small company and develop the strength of a big one? We asked 11 businesspeople to answer these and other questions. Howard Schultz, Starbucks Corp.'s Chairman and CEO, explains how to get big while still acting small. Michael Bloomberg, CEO of Bloomberg LP, cautions against the seductive power of growth. And Terri Lonier, president of Working Solo Inc., asks, Just how much is enough? Read their contributions -- and then apply their cures to your own growing pains. Go to http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/16/one.html?partner=rss ... [MORE] |
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January 18 @ 5:52:14 a.m.
What goes around comes around
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
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January 20 @ 6:10:21 a.m.
"Crash"
Seen this wonderful movie last night. Made me cry.
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January 25 @ 12:44:44 a.m.
Defensiveness
Watch out for any kind of defensiveness within yourself. What are you defending? An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity. By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you disidentify from it. In the light of your consciousness, the unconscious pattern will then quickly dissolve. (Eckhart Tolle) ... [MORE] |
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January 27 @ 8:51:41 a.m.
Meditation Thought
My meditation is simple
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January 30 @ 5:48:44 a.m.
Smart Risks
Some people have all the luck. Or do they? Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson, authors of Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business (Portfolio, May 2005), think something else is going on. "Humans crave predictability," says Stevenson, a professor of entrepreneurial studies at Harvard Business School. "But in reality, every decision is a bet. The question is, how can you make better bets?" Luck, after all, is just a matter of odds, and improving yours comes down to "predictive intelligence" -- the ability to act in the face of uncertainty. Here's how to look like one lucky SOB. Read the article at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/93/5things.html?partner=rss ... [MORE] |
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