Sometimes you can’t win http://weeklyramble.wunderman.com/index.php/weblog/more/walking_on_water/. When, at times, “all else” seems to fail, what the heck are we supposed to do?
Archive for February, 2007
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Plans and Planning
- The thing about plans is that we draft a plan with whatever information we have at the time for the purpose of enabling completion of a project. If enough cicumstances change between initiation and completion, we have to adapt the plan, or it could potentially ruin the project.
Sometimes we get so caught up with our plans, that we miss ...Read more >
- Well I think it is a very fine balance between planning (deliberate),instinct (in-the-moment) and experience (the past). Malcolm Caldwell the author of "Blink" discusses this very point and highlights that "less can be more". I think that deliberate planning is to put us all at ease with facts/figures of any given situation, however situations are constantly changing on ...Read more >
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Walking on Water
Sometimes you just can’t win: FULL STOP. No matter what you say or what you do, you just can’t win!
- My view is sometimes it's more about the experience rather than the result - and in the end you will be the winner!!! It makes you question things more, and through this experience you grow (and the others don't!!) ... David, you can sit back with a smug smile on your face and be safe in the knowledge that what ...
- True, but don't worry, it doesn't matter! Really!
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Entitlement
Entitlement. What do you think about the notion?
- Its beginning to sound like a Hitchcock movie!!!!!Its all about teh flock -- no question -- to keep the bird thing going -- we fly together or.......
- You know, I can't help thinking that the big birds wouldn't be able to get near the number of worms they do without the help and support of the little birds. I've seen many of the people/departments that keep this company going get overlooked simply because they are "little". IT, Admins, HR, Finance - all people who can't ...
- Seems to me the issue of entitlement more adversely affects not the big powerful birds who just take the worm, but rather the little birds left with bubkes. I think if we're all part of one big happy bird family, at the end of the day (or at year-end, as the case may be) we all feel entitled to at ...
