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An endless series of difficult but achievable hills

mic — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:34:48 +0000

“ The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a series of mountains is a career. ”

Seth

I kamikaze del meteo

mic — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:41:34 +0000

“ Eppure l’intero sistema dell’informazione nazionale è stato colto di sorpresa da un’ondata di “gelo siberiano”. O di “temperature polari”, e via discorrendo. Così, nel giro di quarantott’ore, ci è toccato assistere a un’improbabile gara di luoghi comuni che hanno trasformato il più normale dei fenomeni meteorologici in uno stato di emergenza permanente a nove colonne. In cui peraltro la maggiore preoccupazione, sottolineata senza eccezioni, è per la sospensione delle partite di calcio. “La serie A chiude per gelo”, titola il “Corriere” mentre scrivo. Echissenefrega, aggiungo io, dimentico che il calcio è ormai la sola vera industria superstite di questa maledettissima penisola. ”

Marco Cattaneo

The Pirate Coelho

mic — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:54:02 +0000

» My thoughts on S.O.P.A. — Paulo Coelho’s Blog

Follow the “Vision”

mic — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:50:49 +0000

“ Entrepreneurs, I invite you to start asking yourselves new questions. What vision of the future truly inspires you? What values and principles do you want to live by? What will allow you and your team to flourish? In the words of philosopher Howard Thurman, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ”

Dave Kashen

The warning signs of defending the status quo

mic — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:10:47 +0000

“
When confronted with a new idea, do you:

Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits?
Highlight the pain to a few instead of the benefits for the many?
Exaggerate how good things are now in order to reduce your fear of change?
Undercut the credibility, authority or experience of people behind the change?
Grab onto the rare thing that could go wrong instead of amplifying the likely thing that will go right?
Focus on short-term costs instead of long-term benefits, because the short-term is more vivid for you?
Fight to retain benefits and status earned only through tenure and longevity?
Embrace an instinct to accept consistent ongoing costs instead of swallowing a one-time expense?
Slow implementation and decision making down instead of speeding it up?
Embrace sunk costs?
Imagine that your competition is going to be as afraid of change as you are? Even the competition that hasn’t entered the market yet and has nothing to lose…
Emphasize emergency preparation at the expense of a chronic and degenerative condition?
Compare the best of what you have now with the possible worst of what a change might bring?

Calling it out when you see it might give your team the strength to make a leap.

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via Seth’s Blog

People were created to be loved. Things were… | Uomo in mare!

mic — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:48:53 +0000

“ People were created to be loved.
Things were created to be used.
The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used. ”

via Uomo in mare!

Leadership

mic — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:46:03 +0000

“ Leadership is pursuit – pursuit of excellence, of elegance, of truth, of what’s next, of what if, of change, of value, of results, of relationships, of service, of knowledge, and of something bigger than themselves. ”

Mike Myatt

The biggest risk is not taking any risk

mic — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:11:09 +0000

“ The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ”

Mark Zuckerberg

The Art of Right Now

mic — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:03:50 +0000

“ Remember, the future is just a series of “nows.”

If you miss the chance to make the best of every moment, what kind of future will you create?

Stop for a moment and think about it. ”

Hiten Shah

Run your own race

mic — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:03:53 +0000

“ If you’re going to count on the competition to bring out your best work, you’ve surrendered control over your most important asset. Real achievement comes from racing ahead when no one else sees a path and holding back when the rush isn’t going where you want to go. ”

Seth’s Blog