If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.
. . . the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes. . . in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end. . . ideologies and religion. . . are the alibis of the means.
I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.