If you had gathered the same people who created Linux, installed them in a giant conference room for a year, and asked them to devise a new operating system, it’s doubtful that anything so revolutionary would have occurred.
Peter Senge is the author of the book “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.” The Fifth Discipline is focused on group problem solving using the systems thinking method to convert companies into learning organizations.
“Over my nine and a half decades of life, I have concluded that counting our blessings is far better than recounting our problems.” – Russell M. Nelson
“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
Does we really need seven or eight hours of sleep a night? The answer is that we do, even if we have convinced ourselves that we don’t.
Most of us assume that everything that isn’t success must be failure. But the opposite of success isn’t failure. Or, it doesn’t have to be…
The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
“When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running.” ― James Clear
In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow—a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation.
Pink sets out to “unearth the hidden science of timing” – to uncover it as a significant but unrecognized player in our lives.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates US, which draws on 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation
Thinking Fast and Slow is about the two systems in your brain that are constantly fighting over control of your behavior and actions, and explains how this leads to errors in memory, judgment and decisions, and what can be done do about it.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business is a book by Charles Duhigg who takes a unique look into the human mind to explore the science behind habit making.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
The Alchemist is an allegorical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese (O Alquimista), it became a widely translated international bestseller.
Enjoy the best Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes. Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet, Born May 25, 1803. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
In her first book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, Melinda Gates makes a bold claim: when we lift up women, we lift up humanity.
Too often, we measure success in life against the progress we make in our careers. But how can we ensure we’re not straying from our values as humans along the way?
Chris Voss, a former international hostage negotiator for the FBI, offers a new and tested approach to high-stakes negotiations. But the principles of the book can be applied to every negotiations of our lives.
Simon Sinek wrote “The Infinite Game” to rally those who are ready to challenge that status quo and replace it with a reality that is vastly more conducive to our deep-seated human need to feel safe, to contribute to something bigger than ourselves.
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything is about the point where natural talent meets personal passion. The author explores the conditions that lead us to live lives filled with passion, confidence, and personal achievement.
How to be an inspiring leader can be learned, it is not limited to “natural-born leaders”. If we learn to start with the WHY, and we are disciplined, we can all become inspiring leaders.
Decision making is a vital part of any organization, and even of the daily life of people. Decisions that are made at any level can have good or bad outcomes, but is making effective decisions an “art” or a “science”?
