Quote of the Week
“Talent is represented by a natural ability in people to see patterns where others cannot.”
- Bruce Mau
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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 [...]
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Quote of the Week: Creating "Money" Out of Thin Air
From an article in the New York Times quoting George Dyson: Somehow the genius quants — the best and brightest geeks Wall Street firms could buy — fed $1 trillion in subprime mortgage debt into their supercomputers, added some derivatives, massaged the arrangements with computer algorithms and — poof! — created $62 trillion in imaginary [...]
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Quote of the Week: What A Parent Should Aim For
I really liked this thought by Jonathan Safran Foer on his goal as a parent. He wrote it in the context of his journey as a vegetarian, but it has wider applications and resonates as a noble aim: I’m not as worried about what [my children] will choose as much as my ability to make [...]
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Quote of the Week: Mother Theresa – Be Kind Anyway
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. [...]
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Quote of the Week: Ben Stein on Losing our Day Dreams to the Cellphone
Consider our beloved young people… They walk in rows of three, each on a cellphone, not even talking to the people next to her. I keep thinking of my happiest moments of youth, walking along… coming home from [s]chool. I could smell the leaves burning in the late fall, think the long thoughts that young [...]
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