Archive for May, 2007

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Thursday, May 31st, 2007

It’s a very difficult process to build a company farther than the limitations you impose on yourself. Original writing date: November 17, 2005

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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

I decided long ago that problems can only be resolved from a higher level for the level at which they were created. Solutions, therefore, aren’t going to come from that same level. Original writing date: April 19, 2005

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Friday, May 25th, 2007

Unless we are willing to make the effort to interpret our spiritual experiences from a higher level of development than the one that is our center of gravity at the current moment, very little can happen. Original writing date: June 19, 2006

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Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Any time we take a state or a stage or a structure or a level of our own consciousness and assume that what’s given to it is real, we’re caught in the myth of the given. There is no question that a certain portion of our perceptions are valid reflections of underlying reality based on [...]

New Initiatives Needs to Focus on Research

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Disney had a big problem of disconnect and authoritarianism with the office of Strategic Management for the company which had been created by Michael Eisner. I’m experiencing the disconnect here. If the office of Strategic Management or what we call New Initiatives interferes or gets involved in specific divisional functions, they operate not as a [...]

The City of Sleep by Rudyard Kipling

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

OVER the edge of the purple down, Where the single lamplight gleams, Know ye the road to the Merciful Town That is hard by the Sea of Dreams— Where the poor may lay their wrongs away, And the sick may forget to weep? But we—pity us! Oh, pity us! We wakeful; ah, pity us!— We [...]

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Monday, May 14th, 2007

In between the discussion of evolution from the neo-Darwinists on the one side, who are the scientific materialists to the intelligent designers, who espouse religious determinism on the other side, there are whole groups who view evolution not nearly with that polarity. Original writing date: January 2, 2007

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Friday, May 11th, 2007

You know, I always smile whenever anything goes wrong, because I know, as soon as there’s something wrong, several days later, in the news, there’s going to be a finger-pointing episode. The most recent relates to Orlando International Airport and the Transportation Security Administration, who are now pointing fingers as to who was responsible for [...]

Magical Moments in Time

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

It was a recent Friday night and Janet and I were just simply talking. We realized that the kids were gone, with the exception of our littlest one at just shy of 4 years old and the house was incredibly quiet. We were thinking that we probably hadn’t experienced that for some time and Janet [...]

Organizational Transformation

Monday, May 7th, 2007

If a CEO is looking for transformational results, the power of the transformation has to emerge out of one of two things: how bad things currently are, or, how enticing is the vision of the future. In the event current conditions don’t expose an enterprise in crisis or in serious need of repair, latency weighs [...]