Year: 2010
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A front row seat at the apocalypse
Vegas isn’t a real city. It’s a Sodom and Gomorrah theme park surrounded by hideous exurban sprawl and wasteland so barren it makes the moon look like and English rose garden.Winner Take All, by J. R. Moehringer, Smithsonian, October 2010, Pg. 16And that’s why we love it so much; it’s not like anywhere else…
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Meditation
Funny. Tommy and I were just talking about meditation yesterday at breakfast. They could have asked us if it works instead of doing a study. 😉
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Commitment
Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be involved in it.Richard Pratt
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Don’t we all…
Photo by Darrell Beauford at the NE corner of Marshall & Cretin Avenues via email, Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:34:51 -0700I love the subtext of the billboard in the background saying “Come as you are.”
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Where does it end?
Corporations are evolving under judicial legislation into the perfect, immortal citizen-rulers of our capitalist democracy, a virtual republic in which all political speech is advertising and all real citizens are commercial fictions.Harpers, October 2010, page 15
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Priorities
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.Jim Collins