The other day I walked into the kitchen to find some African beat music cranked up by our teenagers. Much to my surprise, I was able to understand the non-English lyrics … it turns out that the [...]
Quote of the Week “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” –Abraham Lincolm
David Whyte tells another story from his Galapagos adventure… one night on the expedition ship they were moored in a cove in a storm … everyone was asleep when David woke up sensing a different [...]
Quote of the Week “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” –Peter F. Drucker
The poet David Whyte – from Yorkshire in England … trained as a marine zoologist and working in the Galapagos, pursuing every marine zoologist’s dream in that ecological paradise… While by [...]
Quote of the Week “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” –William Shakespeare
Happy New Year! We ended 2009 in high gear working with the Army SFAC program that works with wounded, ill and injured soldiers and also with the USAID mission in Kosovo where we conducted a two [...]
Quote of the Week “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” –Bertrand Russel
Quote of the Week “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
Last night I saw a play by poet and playwright Daniel Berrigan – The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. It is the story of a group of committed citizens, the men and women next door, just like “you [...]
If you go out and confirm the 10,000 things, this is an illusion … If you let the 10,000 things confirm you, this is enlightenment. – Dogen Zenji This quote comes from the 1200s … The [...]
I want to share this “Leadership Thought” of Peter Koestenbaum’s on energy and leadership…he sends out a weekly leadership thought by email taken from his many books. [...]
In a previous post I spoke of Carl’s near miss at the beach… It’s such a rich story, I want to unpack another implication for leadership as follows… Humility and respect for what “we [...]
Quote of the Week “It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are without any self-deception that a light will develop out of events by which the path to success [...]
“The really glorious moment is when you throw away the manual and figure it out for yourself.” Matt Crawford – Philosopher & gear head – Author of Shop Class as Soul Craft – New York Times [...]
Quote of the Week “Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown [...]
My friend Carl recently launched his sea kayak into the surf on the wild Outer Banks beaches of North Carolina. After cresting the first line of waves he paddled out to meet the second barrage [...]
Quote of the Week “Words may show man’s wit, but actions his meaning.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness and fulfillment do not come from pleasure but from meaning, from pursuit of a noble purpose.” – Fred Kofman “Conscious Business” When’s the last time you [...]
At the World Economic Forum in January 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered this advice to the assembled CEOs: “Never waste a good crisis.” In other words, a crisis is an [...]
