Meetings are toxic


The worst interruptions of all are meetings. Here’s why: They’re usually about words and abstract concepts, not real things. They usually convey an abysmally small amount of information per minute. They drift off-subject easier than a Chicago cab in a snowstorm. They require thorough preparation that most people don’t have time for. They frequently have agendas so vague that nobody is really sure of the goal. They often include at least one moron who inevitably gets his turn to waste everyone’s time with nonsense. Meetings procreate. One meeting leads to another meeting leads to another … Continue reading

Having the inner will to do whatever it takes to create a great outcome, no matter how difficult.

Discipline in essence, is consistency  of action – consistency with values, consistency with long term goals, consistency with performance standards, consistency of method, consistency over time. Continue reading

“Follow through”

S+B: You’re very big on finding mechanisms that take the mystique of executive leadership and turn it into a real-world exercise. For example, you always follow up meetings with letters. “Follow through” is another one of your essential behaviors. Continue reading

A Collection of Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes About Life, Design and Apple

http://www.macstories.net/roundups/inspirational-steve-jobs-quotes/

Life is intent on finding what works, not what’s right

I find this very liberating. This is where playfulness can enter into our own human relationships in a different way, because the task of the moment, of any moment, is to find something that works, but not be so ego-attached to it that we believe it is the only solution, the only right answer. Continue reading

Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration

What is the one thing to keep in mind when making a film?


When you make a movie, always try to discover what the theme of the movie is in one or two words. Every time I made a film, I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In “The Godfather,” it was succession. In “The Conversation,” it was privacy. In “Apocalypse,” it was morality. Continue reading

Building a dominant political and psychological position….

What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the Psychological and political elements over the purely military. Continue reading