Shortcuts are never advisable but the most efficient path always is. No doubt we've all been humbled by a shortcut that turned into the long way around. Shortcuts, the attempt to skip over critical elements in a process to achieve the end more quickly, always results in a compromised foundation. The various stakeholders in the recent oil …
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All Work and No Play!
The year was 1989 and I had just finished another ceremonial soiree with 60 of my American, French and Soviet peers in Paris, France. I had been selected to represent the United States as a student delegate to tour France in celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution and we made our way by bus, by train and by air around the countryside …
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
"He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I …
Carpe diem or Carpe per diem?
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. -- Frank Lloyd Wright A master builder, a rebel and a nature worshipper, Frank Lloyd Wright's career spanned 70 years and resulted in the design of 1,141 buildings, including churches, schools, libraries, houses, bridges, museums and more. Though Wright is …
A Brave and Determined Spirit
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. - Mark Twain The human spirit is animated by a powerful and inexhaustible force. To be meaningful, the force of life that courses through the veins of any …
Inspired Leaders, Inspired Organizations ask and answer “why?”
What do you believe in? What do you believe about the world? What is important to you? What matters? If you are clear on what you believe in, the rest is just details. If you are clear on what you believe in, you will find others who inspire you to strengthen your resolve. If you are clear on what you believe in, you are much less likely to be distracted by extraneous compulsions.
A New Beginning in Every Moment
Tracy Chapman was one of my favorite artists while I was in high school. Her self-titled first album was released in 1988. Several years later, while completing my masters degree at Boston College, I serendipitously lived in the town house in Boston in which Chapman had apparently written her first album while studying at Tufts. …
It’s time to make the donuts…making the ordinary extraordinary!
Extraordinary people rise above the ordinary because they embrace life with gusto! They imbue their world with a sense of meaning, of purpose and they embrace their world with enthusiasm, encouragement and respect. No task is mundane to a truly extraordinary person. Every circumstance faced by one who has chosen to be extraordinary - no matter how big or small, how apparently meaningful or insignificant - is potentially a womb for greatness.
All’s right with the world…tranquility as a point of departure
Pippa's Song, by Robert Browning The year 's at the spring, And day 's at the morn; Morning 's at seven; The hill-side 's dew-pearl'd; The lark 's on the wing; The snail 's on the thorn; God 's in His heaven— All 's right with the world! I love this little poem as it …
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U.S. Farmers Cope with Roundup Resistant Weeds: Address the Cause not the Symptom
There was an excellent article in the New York Times yesterday that underlines the risk of addressing symptoms rather than the underlying cause when addressing problems (see http://tinyurl.com/3yw758o). Such an approach offers appealing and typically profitable short-term gains, but invariably produces long-term side-effects and costs that outweigh the initial benefits. A biodynamic and organic farmer friend of mine argues that weeds thrive only in compromised soil. …
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Gregory Hake 