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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” …
shaping learners
This was an image originally created for the remarkable Len Schlesinger, currently Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, when he was the …
sponge
I heard this line more than once during my first couple years in the advertising business, right out of college. I soon found out …
common understanding
If common understanding is such a good idea, then why doesn’t it happen more often inside companies? Short answer: Because it’s hard to attain. Really …
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