Failing to Notice
Author: onetusk
The light house is not responsible for the ship’s decisions….
In order to get off the emotional roller coaster, you will have to give up the fantasy that you can or should change somebody else. When you let go of this belief, you will be able to claim the power that is truly yours : the power to change your self. Continue reading
Eternal Joy Through Service
…If you lift the hand to serve, to help, to console, to encourage another man you are lifting it for God, because in every man is God. Continue reading
The “new” river offers water that is filled with possibilities and untapped potential
The ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who was a contemporary of Confucius, Lao Tsu, and the Buddha, is reported to have said that “you can never walk though the same river twice.” Continue reading
war is not outside, the war is within
……..once you conquer yourself your fight with others ceases immediately – because this fight with others is just a trick to avoid the inner war. Continue reading
As long as you have mystery you have health…..
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do… Continue reading
Passion
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true. And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard. And you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re going to give up. Continue reading
What happens when you see a company as a part of nature?
It shifts profoundly how you think about leadership and change. If you use a machine lens, you get leaders who are trying to drive change through formal change programs. If you use a living-systems lens, you get leaders who approach change as if they were growing something, rather than just “changing” something. Even on a large scale, nature doesn’t change things mechanically: You don’t just pull out the old and replace it with the new. Something new grows, and it eventually supplants the old. Continue reading
10 challenges of change
In “The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations,” Peter Senge and his colleagues identify 10 challenges of change. Grouped into three categories — challenges of initiating change, challenges of sustaining momentum, and challenges of systemwide redesign and rethinking — these 10 items amount to what the authors call “the conditions of the environment that regulate growth.” Continue reading
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