Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.
John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [. . . ]
To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.
Conservatives, come out of the closet
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.