Natalie Audelo
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Natalie Audelo
A good brief increases the quality and reduces the quantity of conversation
One of the best ways you can show productivity trust = modeling and embracing “blank time.”
The Root of Over-Meeting Culture
Living Through Revolutionary Times
youtube.comPoet and novelist Hermann Hesse on what we all can do:
"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable ... See more
"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable ... See more
3-2-1: On the secret to self-control, how to live longer, and what holds people back
But, functional divisions grow into fiefdoms, and what was once a convenient division of labor mutates into the “stovepipes” that all but cut off contact between functions. The result: analysis of the most important problems in a company, the complex issues that cross functional lines, becomes a perilous or nonexistent exercise.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
No doubt, science gives us the capacity for wonder. It expands our sense of what is possible and helps us marvel at the enormity and preciousness of the universe. But does it give us the vocabulary we need for our spiritual life?
My sense is that it is either too precise or too abstract to give me the right words and images to name what God might b... See more
My sense is that it is either too precise or too abstract to give me the right words and images to name what God might b... See more
A New Language for God?
Schopenhauer loved metaphor, and his counsel starts with the example of a mason: The man is “employed on the building of a house” but “may be quite ignorant of its general design.” Because of this arrangement, Schopenhauer suggested, the mason was stuck in the daily details of his work instead of seeing it as part of a grand design. And so it is wi... See more
Arthur C. Brooks • Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things
You don't need a goal, you need a theme:
"With a theme, happiness becomes more about how you behave rather than what you achieve. Life is not a series of wins and losses. Though our highs and lows may shock us, lift us up, and forever shape our memories, they do not define us. Most of life happens in the in-between, and what we want in life must... See more