Author: onetusk
The world is won by those who let it go…
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.” Continue reading
Thought for the Week – 11/7/2016
1,500 Strangers Got Together to Sing a Leonard Cohen Song….
1,500 Strangers Got Together to Sing a Leonard Cohen Song Inside an Old Power Plant……. Continue reading
Amazon Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging.
These Principles work hard, just like we do.
Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates.
It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar……..
Pointlessness of Regret
Once, on a mindfulness retreat, I remember our instructor asked us to do one of those odd exercises that are a specialty of meditation teachers. He got us to stand in a circle, then he asked us all to take a step forward. After a few seconds of silence he said, “Now try not to have taken that step.” I had never heard—or more importantly experienced—anything that struck me more powerfully with the pointlessness of certain regrets. Continue reading
All happy companies are different
Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Continue reading
“To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday
Having realized that we can depend on no outside authority in bringing about a total revolution within the structure of our own psyche, there is the immensely greater difficulty of rejecting our own inward authority, the authority of our own particular little experiences and accumulated opinions, knowledge, ideas and ideals. Continue reading
The people who push our buttons most can be our best teachers
“The people who push our buttons most can be our best teachers – they can show us where we are not finished with our own work. It means that all the jerks who show up in my life are there to teach me something. Continue reading
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