Monday, 17 August 2009

The Shock of Reality

A colleague of mine said this the other day (in the context of some technical issue he was dealing with) and I thought it good advice for other areas of life as well. Sometimes you have to pick your battles and some are just not worth fighting. Other ones, are worth overcoming the impossible for.




Complexity


Seems to me there are two kinds of businesses: one which relies on reducing complexity and costs and delivering a simple proposition to customers and the second while relies on charging a premium for delivering something unique, special, or otherwise differentiated. The role of the business leader is to pick one.


Sunday, 12 July 2009

Courage

Long Live Potential


This quote, along with so many other great ones, can be found a Chris Guillebeau's blog.

Being Bolder


What's the worst thing that could happen? It probably isn't as bad as you think (or as likely).

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Judiciously Judge

Adventure