“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. Continue reading
Month: October 2010
Creating something new in the world – Peter Block
If we have any desire to create an alternative future, it is only going to happen through a shift in our language. Continue reading
Benjamin Zander on music and passion
Search for our own identity – Charles Handy
Life, I now think, is really a search for our own identity. Sad is he or she who dies without knowing who they really are, or of what they are really capable. As we move through life we climb a sort of ladder of identity, gradually proving and discovering ourselves. Continue reading
The real organization is always a dense network of relationships – Margaret Wheatley
“The scientific search for the basic building blocks of life has revealed a startling fact: there are none. The deeper that physicists peer into the nature of reality, the only thing they find is relationships. Continue reading
Our culture is our strength….
“Our culture is our strength. There is a sort of unspoken routine; we think alike, and we all know what needs to be done. Competitors may offer the same hardware – the same entertainment systems or new aircraft – but the software is hard to imitate or emulate. Continue reading
“I want my life to count” – Eknath Easwaran
When human beings reach a state in which their physical wants are more than satisfied, when the optimum level of material abundance and physical comfort is reached, something in us feels an unpleasant sense of satiation. Continue reading
Rattling the Competitive Cage – Rich Horwath
Feel like you ‘re trapped in a cage with your competitors? Too close for comfort? Clawing at each other day in and day out? Inevitable? Hardly. But you’re not alone.
In 1934, Moscow University professor G. F. Gause published the results of a landmark study. He placed small animals in a bottle with an ample amount of food. If the animals were of the same genus and a different species, they were able to live together peaceably. However, if the animals were of the same genus and the same species, they were not able to coexist (sound familiar?) This led to the Principle of Competitive Exclusion, which states that no two species can coexist that make their living in the identical way. Continue reading
Dancing in the Rain
It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80’s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. Continue reading
Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities – Peter Senge
Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances … That is the real gift of leadership. It is not about positional power; it is not about accomplishments; it is ultimately not even about what we do. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Continue reading
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