“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart and Lockheed Electra 10E NR16020 c. 1937 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972), 1945 – 1953 the thirty-third President of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
… Read the rest Organizational Turnover: What’s the Impact When Someone Leaves?
Turnover in organizations, whether by people moving on their own power or getting the boot, has an impact.
We intuit that when the malcontent that’s been disrupting the well-oiled machine – think Dwight Howard if you’re a Laker’s sports fan or perhaps Mark Penn if you supported Hillary Clinton in 2008 – departs, the organization goes back to humming right along.… Read the rest
Library Lion: When Do You Break the Rules?
Albert Einstein – “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to go play better than anyone else” – was a brilliant guy.
But it’s clear he never read the kid’s book “Library Lion.”
Einstein should have.
If you’ve got kids in your present or future, so should you. And if you don’t, borrow a copy and read it.… Read the rest
Truth
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
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De Nile is not a River
Face it, we all do it:
- The job we’re hopeful we’ll land has no chance of ever showing up in an offer letter.
- That diet (mine in this case) that we think worked well has the regular 36″ waist size slacks still too tight.
- The company that’s getting it’s lunch handed to it in the market continues to think and refer to itself as a market leader.