I came across an interesting passage in Seth Godin’s Linchpin yesterday evening that I wanted to share with you, as always, with a few of my thoughts on the topic. Godin noted a seismic shift in the way work happens in our era, as distinct from earlier times and summarized his thoughts in this description of the …
Fabulous cheese. Elegant and complicated watches. Excellent engineering. Unflappable punctuality. Discreet banking. Nobel Prize winning scientists and engineers. These are just a few of the things that the tiny country of Switzerland is recognized for around the world. I am compelled this morning to ask what produces excellence in so many fields? The educational system …
I came across a new word recently in a New York Times article entitled "A Public Exit from Goldman Sachs Hits at a Wounded Wall Street." You may have heard of it, but I certainly had not. The word is: shibboleth. The word has several shades of meaning, but the one I find most intriguing …
"While money can buy neither mind nor heart nor soul; it can inspire, it can furnish new opportunities; it can hearten the sorrowing; it can strengthen the weak; it can give new starts in life to those fallen by the wayside; it can give new impulses, new glad hours of fresh hope and the sunrise …
I came across an interesting passage in Seth Godin's Linchpin yesterday evening that I wanted to share with you, as always, with a few of my thoughts on the topic. Godin noted a seismic shift in the way work happens in our era, as distinct from earlier times and summarized his thoughts in this description …
Friends of mine were discussing politics and leadership the day before yesterday and one raised the question: "I wonder why the most successful people, financially speaking, like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett shouldn't be running the country?" The question carried a bit more weight in my mind given Donald Trump's recent indication that he would …
If you feel deeply about something doesn't it make sense that you would seek to know as much as you could about the object of your affection? I read an article yesterday that blew me away. The article, "Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans," looks at the fact that Americans are deeply religious people who …
I believe that supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is the key to a brighter future for the United States. If many of the most successful people in business these days - industry titans like Bill Gates, Michael Dell and Facebook whiz Mark Zuckerberg - dropped out of school to implement their dreams, wouldn't we would be …
The story of the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) plant, a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota Motor Company that began in 1984 and ended this past March, offers powerful lessons for American corporate and political leaders. As part of the joint venture, Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system, one …
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Finally, stay positive. Motivate. Encourage. Take heart yourself. These downturns have happened before and they will happen again. As interminable as they may seem, these periods in history come and go and have never proven historically to be permanent. If anything, redirect the energy that you would waste on worry, fear, panic, blame or regret to more productive pursuits, such as creative thinking, rallying the troops, refining and simplifying work flow and so on.
Gregory Hake 