Monthly Archives: November 2008
“Patience is also a form of action” (Great Work quote)
“Patience is also a form of action.” ~ Auguste Rodin I’m a rusher. Busy busy busy. Rush rush rush. And sometimes moving at a rapid pace is the right thing to do – no getting bogged down in miscellaneous detail … Continue reading
Celebrating your team – present and past
One company that’s seized my imagination – and others’ too – is Innocent in the UK. The create fantastic fruit smoothies and other uber-healthy things, all done with a sense of joy, fun and not-taking-it-all-too-seriously. (It’s worth buying their products … Continue reading
Four REALLY big questions
Way beyond the usual ones (Here’s what’s flashing through my mind: “Is this Great Work?” “Should I get a haircut?” “Does my bum look fat in this?” etc) These are mind benders from philosophy, and well worth getting stumped by
Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium
A favourite writer of mine is Italo Calvino. His *Invisible Cities* is a masterpiece of imagined futures, short prose gems in which Marco Polo and Genghis Khan tell stories of cities where the truth of how we live is build … Continue reading
Are you In? Or are you Out?
It’s the fundamental question about Great Work, the starting point. Are you up for this, or are you not? Are you stepping forward into Great Work or stepping back? Of course, the slippery easy answer is: “Yes, sure I’m up … Continue reading
