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
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
If we have any desire to create an alternative future, it is only going to happen through a shift in our language. Continue reading
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
There are three factors that consistently appear to forcefully impact the capacity of the organisation to succeed in achieving results. The first is the ability of the organisation to give original and unique responses to its customers. The second is the capacity of the organisation to create new knowledge and apply it successfully to products and processes. The last factor is the ability of the organisation to create a workplace in which each person chooses accountability for making the entire enterprise successful. Continue reading
The age of revolution requires revolutionaries.
If you act like a ward of your organization, you’ll be one, and both you and your company will lose. So if you’re still acting like a courtier, or a consort, bending to the prejudices of top management, buffing up their outsized egos, fretting about what they want to hear, getting calluses on your knees—stop! You’re going to rob yourself and your company of a future that’s worth having. No excuses. No fear. If you’re going to be an activist, these have to be more than T-shirt slogans. Continue reading
The following excerpt is from an article by Easwaran that appeared in the Autumn 2006 issue of our quarterly Blue Mountain journal:
“Not long ago it was considered impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes. The ‘four-minute mile’ was a built-in physiological limitation, a kind of invisible wall that one could approach but never break through. And while everybody believed this, it was true. People resigned themselves to watching the record creep up by hundredths of a second, harder and harder to beat as the magic wall got closer.
“And then somebody who didn’t believe in invisible walls – a young English physician, Roger Bannister – ran faster. It was humanly possible! Belief in a four-minute barrier collapsed. It took just six weeks for another runner to break Bannister’s record, and today, mothers and students go out on weekends and run at speeds that experts once decreed beyond human reach. Today some say the real limit is a three-minute mile. But most people are unwilling to set limits at all, and records are broken regularly. Continue reading
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