Quote of the Week
Starting and running a company is not a marathon or a sprint. It is a decathlon. Sometimes you have to sprint. Sometimes you have to pace yourself. Sometimes you have to throw the javelin. Sometimes it’s heavy lifting like the shot put.
– Paul van Zyl
related posts
-
Quote of the Week: Sir Paul McCartney – Ebony and Ivory
Am on my way back from DC to NYC after a briefing with Paul McCartney on behalf of OneVoice (on whose Honorary Board he sits). Earlier during rehearsals, I was struck at the beautiful simplicity and deep truth of the lyrics of Ebony and Ivory: EBONY AND IVORY, LIVE TOGETHER IN PERFECT HARMONY, SIDE BY [...]
-
Quote of the Week: Creating New Choices
Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]
-
Quote of the Week: Living Within Your Means
From an article in the NYT by Ron Lieber, good financial advice from unusual sources – religious: Those who structure their standard of living to allow a little surplus control their circumstances. Those who spend a little more than they earn are controlled by their circumstances. They are in bondage. By N. Eldon Tanner, Church [...]
-
Quote of the Week: Adaptive Leadership
Leadership is the process of bringing a new and generally unwelcome reality to an individual, organization or setting, and helping them successfully adapt to it. -Rony Heifetz (as quoted in a Harvard Kennedy School study (by Dutch Leonard) on Leadership in High Uncertainty Environments, as part of Young Global Leaders executive program. Other interesting insights [...]
-
Quote of the week: Loyalty to the team
"He is a bastard. But now he is our bastard!" – From a friend who shared how they had recruited a controversial mega-star to their circle.
post a new comment