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Facts rarely, if ever, influence the actions or priorities of a leader wired for a different reality - Judy Samuelson, Aspen Institute's Business and Society program Read more →

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we ,just rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We... Read more →

Quote of the Day - The Power of Commitment

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back ... Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely... Read more →

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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes - Thomas Edison Read more →

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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write. – Samuel Wilkes, 1951, paraphrasing H. G. Wells from Mankind in the Making Read more →

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Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: "you... Read more →

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The Ultimate Measure Of A Man is Not Where He Stands In Moments of Comfort And Convenience, But Where He Stands At Time of Challenge and Controversy - Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more →

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Adde parvum parvo magus acervus erit - Ovid The Greeks knew what we seem to forget at times Add little to a little and you get a big pile. In our project management domain, this condition is very common when... Read more →

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"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth." ~ Garry Kasparov Read more →

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If you say a team member is “responsible” for a task, it means the outcome for that task is solely reliant on that person. However, in the event they fail to complete it, they are “accountable” for the outcome. Accountability,... Read more →

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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Still Willfully Ignoring Science

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” Spanish philosopher George Santayana 1918 Pandemic 2020 Pandemic Read more →

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An individual who is observed to be inconsistent to his plans, or perhaps to carry on his affairs without any plan at all, is marked at once. By all prudent people, as a speedy victim to his pen unsteadiness and... Read more →

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ― Matsuo Basho Read more →

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last - Winston Churchill Read more →

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The Truth, clad in flesh, came healed through his flesh the inner eye of our heart, that afterward, we might be able to see him face to face. ― Augustine Read more →

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon Read more →

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We aren't really bad at estimating. What we are really bad at is enumerating all the assumptions that lie behind our estimates. ― Paul Rook, from his keynote on risk management, European Conference on Software Methods, London, October 1994. If... Read more →

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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Compromise

When working with other people and dynamic situations and relationships and deals, a person, especially a leader, must compromise. Finding the common ground between teams. Merging different approaches to the same problem. Bridging personalities with people who might not get... Read more →