“Don’t think of an elephant.” I’m not sure the exact origins of that phrase but I first became away of it via George Lakoff’s book of the same name, and a story in Chip Kidd’s book Cheese Monkeys. My take on the meaning is once you think about one of those lumbering grey pachyderms it […]
Org Identity
An org’s little things are the big things
During a podcast, author Tim Ferris and Josh Waitzkin, who was the basis for the book Searching for Bobby Fischer, were discussing the necessity of bringing discipline and alignment around the things that you believe. It’s been an emerging theme these past few articles, from last week’s entreaty to not forget the brutal facts of your […]