April 29th ~ The word is not the thing. The word passion is not passion. To feel that and to be caught in it without any volition or directive or purpose, to listen to this thing called desire, to listen to your own desires which you have, plenty of them, weak or strong–when you do …
Each of these ideas is the energized core of a unique design for a business. The exploitation of each idea requires a comprehensive intellectual grasp of the totality of a business viewed as an interacting system.” The task demands “special intellectual ability to visualize the translation of ideas and strategies into controlled operating systems responsive …
April 30th ~ In the state of passion without a cause there is intensity free of all attachment; but when passion has a cause, there is attachment, and attachment is the beginning of sorrow. Most of us are attached, we cling to a person, to a country, to a belief, to an idea, and when …
The form that a product takes is given by the material, equipment, and components of the company. These are provided by the shareholder dimension. The form represents the cost of the product. The form of the product is, therefore, the commitment of the shareholder in action. But a product is not simply an idea in …
May 1st ~ Truth, the real God–the real God, not the God that man has made–does not want a mind that has been destroyed, petty, shallow, narrow, limited. It needs a healthy mind to appreciate it; it needs a rich mind–rich, not with knowledge but with innocence–a mind upon which there has never been a …
One other idea to leave you with. You know that old adage: “You have to have money to make money.” Like attracts like, the law of attraction people might say. In Buddhism, there is a saying or concept–you can’t grow a cherry tree from an apple seed. Why wouldn’t the same apply to learning technology? …
Hello everyone. I wanted to write about technology. We are being exposed to new technology, both in person that we use everyday, but also technology in the news. Even though it is necessary to live–we sure are seeing what happens when we don’t have necessary technology to keep us alive, it isn’t the answer to …
Much of the work done at middle and senior management level, much of the consultation work, is simply the expression of ideas in a verbal form through reports, financial statements, contracts, and decisions. The result that ensues from the work of a financial, engineering, or industrial relations consultant is no less a product than the …
May 2nd ~ How do emotions come into being? Very simple. They come into being through stimuli, through the nerves. You put a pin into me, I jump; you flatter me and I am delighted; you insult me and I don’t like it. Through our senses emotions come into being. And most of us function …
The notion of idea is, of course, very important philosophically, and many philosophers have struggled to define it unequivocally. The notion is, nonetheless, of practical importance in the world of commerce and industry. The level of a product, and therefore of a company, is a function of the level of the idea of which that …