Category: SignPosts
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…I busted him up.
The further I go into my leadership quest, the more I understand this quote from Jean-Luc Picard. Perhaps this is wisdom? “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.” Jean-Luc Picard, “Peak Performance” (Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E21) In the episode’s B-plot, the android…
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Bullseye.
This quote is swiped from a cornerstone moment in the first season of Ted Lasso. Ted builds an entire soliloquy around this quote he attributes to Walt Whitman, using it to teach a life lesson to a series antagonist and to the viewer. It’s so in character for Ted that the quote itself is not…
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It’s a Limited-Slip Differential
Everyone who has worked as an Expert Witness dreams of their own Mona Lisa Vito moment. *raises hand* My Cousin Vinny (1992)
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Hit the Pace Car?
No, no, he didn’t slam you, he didn’t bump you, he didn’t nudge you… he *rubbed* you. And rubbin, son, is racin’. Harry Hogge Days of Thunder (1990)
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Literally.
Sometimes the messages are literal. For a few days, I had one of my other projects sitting in my office for a few days. It was a literal broken clock. Built in 1966 by Solari of Udine, Italy, this is a Dator 10 transit clock. We picked it up at a mid-century modern show in…
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Random History Fact #237
“If I Could Turn Back Time”, Cher (1989)” Cher has a lot of good music, but for a certain demographic of the MTV generation this music video is our anthem. This video was filmed on the USS Missouri, shot in one night with the active crew while docked in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. The…
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Actions speak louder than words.
Read enough books on leadership, listen to enough Ted talks, scroll enough LinkedIn posts, and a common theme appears. According to those sources, leadership is all about action! A sucessful leader is all about doing! Creating! Managing Change! Executing! Responding to things! The funny thing is, if you talk with leaders with strategy and vision…
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If we can’t imagine it, we’ can’t build it.
There’s a number of versions of this quote; I like the commanding tone of this one. When you have a grand idea, the first step is believing it’s possible. Everything after that is just an exercise in figuring out how to do it. If impossible things were fact, there wouldn’t be any innovation.
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I’ve had the strangest dream…
Bob Newhart (1929-2024) Comedy comes in many forms, and no one was a greater master of the dry wit than Bob Newhart. With not just one, but two successful TV shows in the golden era of the TV sitcom he will remain not just one of my favorite comedy actors but one of history’s favorites.…