“When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere, somehow, men must find a refuge.” — Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way Everybody wants to go to heavenGet their wings and fly aroundEverybody want to go to heavenBut nobody want to go now— Jim Collins / Marty Dodson, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven…
“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” — Jim Collins At a mass of remembrance recently, a Catholic priest, speaking on faith…
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker “You seem to spend a lot of time worrying if you will survive, and you will probably survive…. It’s the wrong question! The question is how to be useful.” — Peter Drucker to…
“It is no harder to build something great than to build something good. It might be statistically more rare to reach greatness, but it does not require more suffering than perpetuating mediocrity.” – Jim Collins, Good to Great Good to Great came out twenty years ago this year. It’s interesting to see how the companies…
“The cup of life’s for him that drinks And not for him that sips.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Away With Funeral Music I read through several poems this morning, finding them all falling flat for me. Same with the books I’m reading. I know I have a few stand-byes I can call up,…
Momentum is a funny thing. It doesn’t come from one big day of contribution, but from small, daily effort over time. Like many people I use the Jim Collins analogy from Good to Great of pushing the flywheel when I reference momentum. Here’s his own summary of the flywheel effect: “There is no single defining…