Tuesday, May 21, 2013
If Only
I can never resist studying the photos whenever Eclecticity finds a clean, well-lighted place to blog.
Traffic: When Less Regulation Works
At The Dish: A fascinating video of what happens when the traffic lights and signs are taken down and the cars, bikes, and pedestrians deal with one another.
Patience, Prudence, Caring, and the Zone
It can take you many years to establish a great reputation - such treasure is not created overnight - but that same reputation can be destroyed in seconds.
We may wish those numbers were reversed and yet that is not the way life operates.
An account of the early life of Winston Churchill described him as a young man in a hurry. Churchill's dedication to his advancement was no small thing but he did not become prime minister until he was 65 and even that was a close call. [I'm appallingly behind with my own career schedule and may be an overnight success at 80.]
Consider the impact on the world, however, if Churchill had decided to pack it in after the Gallipoli disaster and write books. We'd probably be speaking German right now. Many of us wouldn't be around at all.
Patience and prudence should be blended with caring. By that, I mean the wisdom to know what to care about, what not to care about, and the depth of each. Many of us spend way too much time fretting about things which, in retrospect, seem minor. A large portion of those worries involves matters over which we have little or no control. I have written earlier about the importance of having a zone of indifference. It is vital to care, but unless you develop such a zone, the world will drive you to despair.
The zone of indifference should be linked to similar zones of patience and prudence. Each filter enables you to function far more effectively and protects against the evils of impatience and indiscretion.
"But not to excess" should be on the prescription label of all of our virtues.
Quote of the Day
In the days of developing the minivan, we never once got a letter from a housewife asking us to invent one. To the skeptics, that proved there wasn't a market out there.
- Hal Sperlich
- Hal Sperlich
Monday, May 20, 2013
Top 100 Leadership Blogs
Leblin (Leadership Blog Index) has released its list of the top 100 leadership blogs for 2013.
Congratulations to all!
Speech, Headscarves, and Abercrombie & Fitch
Michael P. Maslanka looks at a case where religion, speech, and employment law make an interesting broth. An excerpt:
“The court leaves to another day the more difficult question of whether a living model, whose stated job responsibility is to advertise Abercrombie's brand, constitutes commercial speech,” wrote Judge Edward J. Davila.
“The court leaves to another day the more difficult question of whether a living model, whose stated job responsibility is to advertise Abercrombie's brand, constitutes commercial speech,” wrote Judge Edward J. Davila.
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