May 2009
19 posts
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal...”
– Soren Kierkegaarde (via borgomani) (via quote-book)
“If today’s boardrooms are smart enough to stop waging war on each other,...”
– Amen, Umair! via How to Challenge Google (And Win)
“Great managers see the unique talents of each employee, and then create the role...”
– Susan Boyle: A Lesson in Talent Management - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org
“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to...”
– (via suzannexie) (via hiten)
Group Inefficiency →
groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. This is important because those groups that do share unique information tend to make better decisions
I wonder what kinds of tools exist (or can build) that help groups flush out information only known to...
Allowing Others to Be →
Controlling behavior in the negative sense comes from a tendency to reach beyond our own boundaries and into the lives of others. Many people do this with the rationalization that they are helping… If you have control issues, you will see that in one or more areas of your life, you feel the need to interfere with what is happening rather than just allowing events to unfold… Controlling...
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made of.”
– Bruce Lee
How To Make Your Own Luck →
Turns out you can make yourself luckier by following a few simple principles. Here’s one:
One way is to be open to new experiences. Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They’re prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.
The secret of self-control
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Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it…
The only way to defeat temptations is to avoid them, and that means paying attention to something else.
The Harlem Miracle →
What Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and president, has done is “the equivalent of curing cancer for these kids. It’s amazing. It should be celebrated. But it almost doesn’t matter if we stop there. We don’t have a way to replicate his cure, and we need one since so many of our kids are dying — literally and figuratively.”
Canada spoke at the GEL Conference in one of the...
“Fear self-magnifies. It is when you are afraid and envisioning all that might go...”
– DailyOM - Walking Through Your Fear
“I always hated the word career. It implies that fame and fortune are what...”
– Pete Seeger via New Speedway Boogie (via msg)
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is...”
– Iris Murdoch via Ten Things I Have Learned, by Milton Glaser (an *excellent* read)
“If you’re not working on cool stuff, take a risk and try to make it happen....”
– How to work on cool stuff Totally agree - learning is the most important thing you can do professionally (emphasis mine)
How Davids can Beat Goliaths →
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest is insightful for both startups and life.
When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win 63.6% of the time.
I like this one, because anybody can do relentless effort.
Effort can trump ability… because relentless effort is in fact rarer than ability.