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spare time
Where do we find the time, and solitude to do our work- you know, the stuff that we are actually paid to do? Not …
public/private self
The trouble with being successful is that it’s exhausting. Not to mention, stressful. Not to mention, overly complicated. Not to mention… well, you know. …
self-actualized employees
Not everybody on your team is going to be super successful. Not everyone is going to be a unicorn. But that shouldn’t stop you from …
boredom nation
Back when I was a sixteen year old, keeping myself amused was probably my hardest occupation. The Internet hadn’t been invented yet, nor had I …
perfectly controlled
The media likes to portray business folk as people in charge. Ha. If only. Business is too messy for that. But a good leader knows …
millionaire artist
This was drawn in New York, July, 1998. My late father used to call this one, “Hugh’s Autobiography”. Like pretty much every young person in …
die free
You can’t live free until you’re ready to die free first. No chains, no handcuffs- just freedom. Anything worth doing will cost you your life eventually. …
emotion, belief, engagement
According to Harvard Business review, about 85% of change initiatives inside large companies fail. Why? Because, like we’re fond of telling our culture change clients, “Nothing …
companies don't have ideas
It’s the easiest thing to do in the world: forget about the people part, think just about the product part. And why? Because people are …
its not the tool
The master owns his tools, he is not owned by them. The apprentice doesn’t quite get this yet, that’s why he’s still the apprentice. …
finding the truth
This image was inspired by Ray Dalio‘s famous principles. Ray is the guy who founded Bridgewater Associates, the company that put the ‘radical‘ in “Radical Transparency”. When …
the problem with facts
This image is another way of saying, “The problem with objectivity begins, once we start believing that the latter actually exists”. I like “the data” …
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