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Creating the Future
February 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter F. Drucker I was reading a series of predictions about the future that turned out to be quite inaccurate. The results are often laughable, but there was a common thread that I saw. In nearly every case, the quote is attributed to a [...]
Planning, Goals and Success
January 21, 2011 By 3 Comments
“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything.” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens.” - Yvon Chouinard, rock climber, environmentalist and founder of Patagonia “Failures don’t plan to fail; they fail to plan.” – [...]
Schopenhauer and the Lifecycle of a New Idea
June 25, 2008 By 2 Comments
Every once in a while a new idea comes along — a shift in thinking that challenges the status quo. These innovations require us to either resist the change or adapt (most of us tend to resist). German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer did a good job of summarizing the lifecycle of the new idea, when he [...]
Entrepreneurship and Juvenile Delinquency
June 19, 2008 By 2 Comments
I ran across a great quote from Yvon Chouinard, founder of outdoor outfitter Patagonia and noted environmental philanthropist. He says: “…to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They’re both saying: ‘This sucks and I’m going to do it another way.’ You have to want to break the rules and prove that your [...]
Damnation
January 3, 2008 By 6 Comments
I was reading an interesting story about how Netflix (one of my favorite services) is going to start downloading rentals directly to set-top devices hooked to your TV. Great idea, but what really caught my eye was the quote from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and founder: “It (the set-top device) is going to be very slick [...]
The Man in the Arena
October 12, 2007 By 2 Comments
Tech investor Yossi Vardi spoke recently at TechCrunch40. Vardi is perhaps best known for being the original investor in instant messaging pioneer ICQ. Michael Arrington describes Yossi as someone who invests in people, not business plans. To help make his point and establish his philosophy for investment, Vardi quoted Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech at the [...]
Teenage Sex and Knowledge Management
July 22, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Knowledge management is like teenage sex. Everyone is talking about it all the time, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, almost no one is really doing it although everyone is bragging about it, and those who are doing it aren’t doing it very well. – Randy Harless The unspoken truth behind this clever quote [...]
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