Helping Those in Poverty

“Don’t help those in poverty. Chase them out of it.” - Ben Franklin

How to Succeed

Work your butt off for 15 years and you’ll become an over-night success.

Sleep

I only have two problems: falling asleep and staying asleep.

Look for the Positive

If you look for the bad, that's all that you'll see.

Listen More Than You Speak

Listen more than you speak.

Decisions Determine Destiny

What are the decisions in your life and what implications will they have on your destiny? [CTR can also mean "Consider the Results" of your actions.]

Happiness

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer

Answer to Prayer

Be the answer to someone else's prayer.

Capturing Employee Innovation

I just caught Paul Allen's blog of March 18th, which reads, in part, as follows:

"Last week I listened for the third time to Marissa Mayer's amazing talk at Stanford about Google's culture of innovation. . . . She lists the top 9 reasons that Google is innovative.

"One of them, of course, is that every Google engineer gets to work on their own pet project for 20% of the time. Marissa says that in the second half of 2005, 50% of the products Google introduced came from 20% time.

"Another was that 'ideas come from everywhere,' including customers, employees, senior management, and through acquisitions.

"Clearly Google folks are encouraged not only to have ideas but to share them and to pursue them.

"That is a very different culture from most companies I've ever seen, where few people are energized with new ideas, and those that have great ideas are often frustrated by politics or lack of resources to the point where they have no hope that their ideas will be heard or implemented."

Fail Often

Fail often, to succeed sooner.

Draw Out the Best in People

"People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in."

-from First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

Need a Consultant? Do it Yourself

Intel's Andy Grove and Gordon Moore (1983):
". . . I turned back to Gordon, and I asked, "If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?" Gordon answered without hesitation, "He would get us out of memories." I stared at him, numb, then said, "Why don't you and I walk out the door, come back, and do it ourselves?"