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Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the sights you want to see.
“A Hewlett-Packard employee studying the company’s history once asked co-founder David Packard about his theory of leadership. She reported that after a long pause, he said simply, “I don’t know about theories of leadership. Bill [Hewlett, the co-founder] and I were just doing what we loved and were so delighted that people wanted to join us.”
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
“If anyone reading this message is going through dark, difficult times, I hope my story has given you some small encouragement. Even when the future seems utterly hopeless, when you feel like you’re all alone in the world, I have faith that each and every one of us is dearly beloved to someone else. May the dreary days of rain soon give way to a brilliant rainbow arching high across the sky for us all.”
― The Rainfall Market
― The Rainfall Market
“The English word “company” comes from the French compaigne—the sharing of bread, the same root as “companion.” Interestingly, the oldest Swedish term for business, narings liv, means “nourishment for life,” and the oldest Chinese symbol for business translates as “life meaning.” Perhaps when we rediscover organizations as living systems, we will also rediscover what it actually means to us as human beings to work together for a purpose that really matters.”
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
― The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
“Nobody knows what’ll happen unless you try. Instead of agonising over what you should do, think about putting effort into whatever you’re doing. It’s more important to try your best in whatever you do, no matter how small”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
“Nobody knows what’ll happen unless you try. Instead of agonising over what you should do, think about putting effort into whatever you’re doing. It’s more important to try your best in whatever you do, no matter how small it may seem. All your effort will add up to something.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
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