Mollie Dunn

Stalk your greatest desire. When you find it, let all of your lesser desires be transformed so that they serve the greatest one.

The transformation of desire happens when we become less concerned about the fulfillment of our own desires and more concerned about the fulfillment of others. We find, paradoxically, that it is the very pathway to fulfilling our own. The positive cycle of desire works because the primary thing being imitated is the gift of self.

Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities.

What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has de

“While we can’t cure systemic racism in this room, there are a lot of things we can cure in our company.”

He wanted his team to first get below the surface and identify what they could change. He wanted to avoid grandiose promises. He wanted to be realistic and focus on what was in front of him and his executive team.

When competitive rivalries flared up within his company, he gave each employee clearly defined and independent tasks so they didn’t compete with one another for the same responsibilities. This is important in a start-up environment where roles are often fluid. A company in which people are evaluated based on clear performance objectives—not their p