February 2012
31 posts
“Real leadership is collaborative, respectful and positive. People aren’t punished for disagreeing; listening and compromise are strengths. True leaders know how to use power carefully, and the more power they have, the more careful they are in its use.”
—Pam Iorio from A Textbook Lesson in Bad Leadership
“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence, only in constant improvement and constant change.”
—Tom Peters
“Creativity is thinking up new things.
Innovation is doing new things.” —Theodore Levitt
Innovation is doing new things.” —Theodore Levitt
A typeface designed for people with dyslexia. →
studiostudio.nl
A Dutch graphic designer and dyslexic, Christian Boer, developed a font specifically for dyslexic readers. It’s designed to make letters more distinct from each other and to keep them tied down, so to speak, so that the reader is less likely to flip them in their minds. The letters in the font are also spaced wide apart to make reading them easier.
“The history of failure in war, or in any other human endeavor, can be summed up in two words: “too late.”
—General Douglas MacArthur
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
—Mark Twain
“With every mistake we must surely be learning.”
—The Beatles — While My Guitar Gently Weeps
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
—Leo Burnett
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”
—Charles F. Kettering
“Promotion wins quarters. Innovation wins decades.”
—Bob McDonald
“If you don’t take a risk, then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?”
—Francis Ford Coppola
January 2012
1 post
“In order to change something, you actually have to do something.”
—Yvon Chouinard
