The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is
acceptance.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is
acceptance.

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. read more

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time read more

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that read more

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term read more

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder
or control the firm resolve of a read more

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder
or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world
a portion of its lost heart.

No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world
a portion of its lost heart.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a
fact, then you are residing on another read more

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a
fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality
system.