Creative destruction and rebuilding of an established institution require the willingness to be called an asshole. Continue reading
Month: October 2010
A Project
This much I know: Morgan Freeman
This much I know: Morgan Freeman
The actor, 73, on wearing an earring, being a good sailor, and dreaming big
Simon David
The Observer, Sunday 17 October 201
Morgan Freeman – actor, director and narrator. Photograph: Colorstorm Media/Eyevine Continue reading
10 lessons for marketers from Barack Obama
A bit dated but worth a read….
10 lessons for marketers from Barack Obama
The battle for the American Presidency has been a fascinating and historic one. But a few weeks ago, the brand new President-elect of the US, Barack Hussein Obama won hands down in another equally improbable contest. He was voted Advertising Age Marketer of the Year, beating global icons such as Apple and Nike. Obama has been in the news for his extraordinary online fundraising and $188 million TV ad blitz. But what won him acclaim from American chief marketing officers and chief executive officers was his path breaking digital strategy and campaign. Continue reading
You will be what you will to be
You will be what you will to be;
Let failure find its false content
In that poor word, “environment,”
But spirit scorns it, and is free.
It masters time, it conquers space;
It cows that boastful trickster, Chance,
And bids the tyrant Circumstance
Uncrown, and fill a servant’s place. Continue reading
Humanity cannot forget its dreamers
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers. Continue reading
Bend and you will never break
Learn to bend, and you will never break
Learn to turn, and you will never fall Continue reading
The World As I See It – Albert Einstein
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people Continue reading
Strive your best
Discover for yourself your stage of spiritual development, to which class in the school you would fit in. Then determine to proceed from that class to the next higher one. Continue reading
Letting go
Two monks were returning to the monastery in the evening. It had rained and there were puddles of water on the road sides. At one place a beautiful young woman was standing unable to walk across because of a puddle of water. Continue reading
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