UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Sometimes, we want the impossible to change its mask and emerge as the possible. Sometimes, we know we are deceiving ourselves: that in spite of the fantasy we indulge in, the grand metamorphosis will not occur. We can pray to the heavens for 1,000 years, promise every kind of sacrifice in return for our dream, light candles against the western sky but the impossible remains stubbornly locked in its place.

I have always believed that there is a tight connection, a powerful and uncanny analogy, between business and personal relationships. They appear from a distance to be two different worlds but they are actually mirror images of one another.

The camouflage occurs because the settings are so different: one takes place in a conference room; the other in a bed.

Tenure is a euphemism. A wonderfully intellectual way of saying that you can stay on the job, protected by the rules, even if your performance is as captivating as frozen pizza.

All of life is an ebb and a flow.
Success, beauty, joy, failure, disappointment washes in and just when you think any or all of these facets of life are permanent, they wash back out to the sea.
Gone. A thing of the past.
Why does this 180 occur? Only God knows. The seas ebb and flow, [...]