In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.
What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.
Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.
Many Westerners see follow-through and reliability as the most critical factor in how they calculate the trustworthiness of another individual. In some other cultures, who you know and how you're related to other individuals is the most important variable. And for others, it may be as much about your reputation and what others have said about you.
Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust.
Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.
Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his. ' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice.
Knowledge is love and light and vision.