Email this ? Subscribe to this feed ? Share on Facebook,How many of your customers, prospects, vendors, regulators and colleagues give you the benefit of the doubt? When you're trying to sell your idea, it's natural to assume that the people you're selling to think the way you do,I can understand why it's hard for him to quit
Or consider the way we resist opportunities to lead, to connect, to do work that matters,It didn't pay the author glamorously well, but if your book was chosen, it guaranteed people would talk and it would become a bestseller If you choose to manage a project, it's pretty safe,The best ideas come out of the corner of our eye, the edge of our consciousness, in a flash
Obviously, t-shirts are very different than SUVs, but the concept is the same,Painless and quick are rarely associated with 'successful We keep adding all this power to the web, but with the power seems to come complexity,The true believers are in our faces every day
Being a little more right than the masses ultimately pays off in the long run,Intentionally pitting people against one another to make a few bucks is dangerous self-indulgence And yes, winning still means now, not later,That's very different from the consumer version of this lesson: borrow money to buy things that go down in value
Most of us, though, care about alert people making insightful decisions,The hardest part of being patriotic to your cause is rooting on the whole even when it's easier to be a cynical critic A demagogue cares so much about winning that he'd rather wreck the system itself than lose,This is wrongheaded, short-term and irrational
Nor, if regularity and conformity to a standard pattern are as desirable to the scientist as the writing of his papers would appear to reflect, is management to be blamed for discriminating against the "odd balls" among researchers in favor of more conventional thinkers who "work well with the team."
