June 20, 2016
I heard the two men talking about a third old man who had recently died. One of them said, “I was visiting him at his home. He started to tell me an amazing story about something that had happened to him when he was young. But it was a long…
August 10, 2015
That quote above comes from Thomas Mann and is one of the pieces of advice from Ryan Holiday in this post entitled So You Want to Write a Book. In summary the post is about writing… It’s not therapy. It’s not an “experience.” It’s hard fucking work. This article includes…
September 4, 2014
Financial Times journalist Jo Ellison in an article entitled Fear and Clothing reviews two books which argue the case for why clothes and fashion matter. Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton began with a survey of over 600 people about their relationship with clothes. Worn Stories by Emily Spivack describes the emotional…
March 29, 2011
Why is it that so many interesting and innovative things happen at 4am? Rives, in this TED talk, attempts to add 1 and 1 and get 100. Funny, inspiring and very clever.
March 8, 2011
We emphasize things that are rational and conscious and are inarticulate about the processes down below. We are really good at talking about material things but bad at talking about emotion. This growing, dispersed body of research reminds us of a few key insights. First, the unconscious parts of the…
February 17, 2011
The celebrated Avis Rent-a-Car President and Chairman, Robert C. Townsend, once said of management consultants: “The effective ones are the one-man shows. The institutional ones are disastrous. From Anecdote – go over there and learn about storytelling in organisations
February 14, 2011
Sometimes the worst situations offer the best learning. In a gathering of colleagues recently we shared stories of some challenging consulting assignments. Yes, there were difficult clients and some harrowing stories, but each of my colleagues had reflected on their experiences, learned some lessons and allowed the learning to inform…
January 11, 2011
[The Irish] ….. dealt with the failures of the system not by demanding change, but by quietly withdrawing from it. Evasion is the first resort of our culture. For all those who could afford it, it was the strategy of choice. But, like all our other evasions, it is now…
