Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.
we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.
A rut. . . is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.
As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.
Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
. . . leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.
Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!
Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.
My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.