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Friday, October 17, 2003

 

We have a "strategic" plan.
It’s called doing things.

Herb Kelleher
Southwest Airlines

Thursday, October 16, 2003

 

"Good management" is the No. 1 reason that big firms fail. Because, all too often, "good management" means big, bureaucratic blobs... peopled by big, bureaucratic, blobby employees... paying attention to big, bureaucratic, blobby customers...supplied by big, bureaucratic, blobby suppliers.

It's time to change all that. Dramatically. Time to destroy what we are. Time to build anew. A frightening time. A fun time. Both, in equal measure. It is always so at moments of dramatic change.

Tom Peters
Re-imagine

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

 

If we have learned anything over the last few years, it is that accounting systems that do not tell the truth can be costly. Faulty corporate accounting systems that overstate income or leave costs off the books have driven some of the world's largest corporations into bankruptcy, costing millions of people their lifetime savings, retirement incomes, and jobs.

Unfortunately, we also have a faulty accounting system at the global level, but with potentially far more serious consequences. Economic prosperity is achieved in part by running up ecological deficits, costs that do not show up on the books, but costs that someone will eventually pay. Some of the record prosperity of recent decades has come from consuming the earth's productive assets and from destabilizing its climate.

Lester Brown
Earth Policy Institute

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

 

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Sir Richard Branson
Inventor of the Virgin brand

Monday, October 13, 2003

 

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God give us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
March 4th, 1865