But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.
New World Order: The Rise of the Region-State
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
Analysis Is the Critical Starting Point of Strategic Thinking
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried. ' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.