The day of death. . . is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.
People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
Nothing fails like success.
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line. "To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But. . . all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization. . . and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
That's almost the best part, making the record cover.
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.