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We can appreciate the choices we need to make with objective eyes; we can vent our frustrations; sort out our confusions; untangle a web of lies even. All so that we can find our way to a much larger story. One that we control consciously
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“Identify conditions, not culprits. ‘We have a ground rule that the purpose of a post-mortem is to find out what happened and how to make it better, not to find a person to blame', Dickerson told Business Insider Australia. ‘As a result, what we've seen is a company that's learning and moving faster.' Therefore, the goal is to find out how the mistake happened,”
― The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives
― The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives
“As the Haitian proverb puts it: Behind mountains are more mountains. Elysium is a myth. One does not overcome an obstacle to enter the land of no obstacles. On the contrary, the more you accomplish, the more things will stand in your way. There are always more obstacles, bigger challenges. You’re always fighting uphill. Get used to it and train accordingly. Knowing that life is a marathon and not a sprint is important. Conserve your energy. Understand that each battle is only one of many and that you can use it to make the next one easier. More important, you must keep them all in real perspective. Passing one obstacle simply says you’re worthy of more. The world seems to keep throwing them at you once it knows you can take it. Which is good, because we get better with every attempt.”
― The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
― The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“What ideas have you contributed that have made a difference? How have you collaborated with others to build ideas?”
― The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives
― The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives
“The internet similarly allows networked movements to grow dramatically and rapidly, but without prior building of formal or informal organizational and other collective capacities that could prepare them for the inevitable challenges they will face and give them the ability to respond to what comes next.”
― Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
― Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
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