And that’s the key to the paradox of effort: While luck may be more appealing than effort, you don’t get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.
World of Warcraft As Leadership Training
“— he’s basically working on the idea that these tools are an amazing way to learn leadership, teamwork, project management, planning and so forth (and he notes that blue-collar construction workers are generally better leaders than MBAs).”
Interesting observation about blue collar versus MBAs.
It happens constantly and it is the hidden secret reason why so may marketing campaigns fall way short of their potential. Not because the offer isn’t good or wouldn’t be welcomed by all the recipients; simply because many of the recipients never know about it because we fail to command their attention.
— Dan Kennedy
Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.
— Henry Ford, on February 11, 1934
Posted November 29, 2008 at 8:55am
So apparently, corporations/banks can avoid paying taxes by purchasing failing companies and using them as tax shelters. Does anyone disagree with the sentiment that companies who can only keep afloat via massive injections of capital from the federal government should be allowed to go out of business? I mean, they made their bed, now let them lie in it. Maybe then there will be room in the market for new and better companies to rise up and take their place.
Posted November 12, 2008 at 6:42am
