On The Road

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb


As my father said "Learn to soft-soap the older generation."

Going

I don't know where I'm going but I know no one is going to stop me. - Ariel Tweto


Sometimes you just go full speed ahead.

Going Slowly

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb


How fast you go says a lot about your personality.

Fashion

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau


Following the fashion of your generation into adulthood is a sign of stability rather than lacking perception.

Purpose and Principle

Purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any healthy organization. To the degree that you hold purpose and principles in common among you, you can dispense with command and control. People will know how to behave in accordance with them, and they'll do it in thousands of unimaginable, creative ways. The organization will become a vital, living set of beliefs. - Dee Hock


Whenever you gather others around you to advance a goal make sure they share your purpose and principles.

Unbridled Growth

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey


Many times it is preferable to get better, not bigger.

Moving Forward

If you take a look at the timeline of history, you’ll see that the human race tends to move forward in spite of the pack, not because of it. - Michael Hurd


Individuals innovate; groups stagnate.

Lifting The Age

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. - Maxwell Anderson


If you're not a heavy lifter don't weigh down those who are.

Your Discrection

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it. - Benvenuto Cellini

  Why small businesses often fail when management is passed on and, sometimes, why they flourish.

Emergencies

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was that which drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. - Victor Hugo

  Focused visionaries are driven as if by an emergency.

Lazy Progress

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein

  Not to be used as an excuse for staying in bed (except maybe on weekends).

Rush Hour

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. - Anonymous

And no speed limit.

Allusion of Progress

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the allusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. - Petronius Arbiter


To things need to be reorganized or just perfected?

Early To Bed.........

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein

But most of the work is done by the early risers. Each has their place.

Expecting Perfection

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. - Michelle Burford


I cannot expect perfection from you but you most certainly must expect perfection from yourself. Never accept mediocrity as a goal.

Results Rule

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. - Sir Winston Churchill


Reality is the final word.

Everything From Anywhere

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. - Charles Caleb Colton  (1780–1832)


The internet has changed everything.

Progress Profit

Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from their ideas. - Deborah Neville


That's why socialist and communist countries make no progress.

Uncomfortable Progress

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting. - Larry Page


Progress is not comfortable.

Unreasonable Progress

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw


Societies which make "reasonable" as the ultimate goal don't progress.