Tag: Culture
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Études sur le Vin
“In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”-Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Today, innovators live in a “Eureka!” culture. They sell the story that ideas appear as visions out of thin air, just waiting for the chosen few to grab them and change the world. The reality of innovation is nothing like that at…
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Surprise Star Trek
This quote often gets mis-interpreted from Sun Tzu’s Art of War. The concepts of turning disadvantages into advantages is all over that treatise, and likely influenced the writers of Star Trek. Yeah, it’s another Star Trek Quote. Sorry. In “Loud as a Whisper”, from Season 2 of The Next Generation, a deaf negotiator joins the…
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Winning isn’t Everything
Some quotes I come across hit me like a ton of bricks. This is one of them. There is a chronic challenge in today’s world that everything must be framed as a Zero-Sum Game. That if there is a winner, someone who gains something, there must be someone who loses in equal value. Even debates…
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Cloudy with a chance of wrong.
Humans are emotional creatures. When something doesn’t work, it’s normal to react. We can be disappointed, angry, shameful, prideful. We put effort into things, and we want to succeed. There’s like four-thousand different inspirational quotes about dealing with failures. All sorts of successful people will gladly tell you about all the times they weren’t. But…