A real person has two reasons for doing anything... a good reason and the real reason. view
In a restroom at IBM's Watson Center, a supervisor had placed a sign directly above the sink. It had a single word on it --"THINK!" The next day, when he went to the restroom, he looked at the sign and right below, immediately above the soap dispe... view
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Of course, you could do even better with a dead squirrel. view
Vacuuming is so much more fun when the hamsters are loose. view
U.S. Populace Lurches Methodically Through the Motions for Yet Another Day The wall-eyed, slack-jawed U.S. populace, beaten down into a state of near-catatonia by the relentlessly deadening banality of their joyless, insipid lives, dutifully trudged ... view
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"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." view
When Joe Paterno first began coaching the Penn State Nittany Lions, they got off to a dismal start. During his second year (1967), he noticed that his starting players were just going through the motions, playing without commitment or intensity. He als... view
A well-dressed European woman was on safari in Africa. The group stopped briefly at a hospital for lepers. The hear was intense, the flies buzzing. She noticed a nurse bending down in the dirt, tending to the pus-filled sores of a leper. With disdain t... view
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, March 4, 2001: Retaining Key Staff: What High-Tech Employees Say versus What They Do Summary: Never listen to what people say in response to a survey: asking high-tech employees what will keep them in their jobs provides very d... view
A father noticed that his son was spending way too much time playing computer games. In an effort to motivate the boy into focusing more attention on his schoolwork, the father said to his son, "When Abe Lincoln was your age, he was studying books by th... view
[Note that quote comes from a transcript of the talk that the folks at Harvard gave me (Bob Sutton). I have edited out a few lines, in part, because Grove made some comments about the Soprano’s TV show that were funny, but distract from the main point]... view
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they... view
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