by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms, Team Manager Skills
For a social discipline, such as management, the assumptions are actually a good deal more important than are the paradigms for a natural science. The paradigm—that is, the prevailing general theory—has no impact on the natural universe. Whether the paradigm states that the sun rotates around the earth, or that, on the contrary, the earth rotates around the sun, has no effect on sun and earth. But a social discipline, such as management, deals with the behavior of people and human institutions. The social universe has no “natural laws” as the physical sciences do. It is thus subject to continuous change. This means that assumptions that were valid yesterday can become invalid and, indeed, totally misleading in no time at all.
Because the generally held assumptions about management no longer apply, it is important that we first make them explicit, and then replace them with assumptions that better fit today’s reality.
That’s where we are today with the discipline of management.
—Peter Drucker
Forbes, 1998
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. … Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
–Reinhold Niebuhr
The Irony of American History
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by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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There is no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained.
What prison could be more secure than one we’re convinced is “the world,” where the boundaries of action and thought are assumed to be limited by the permissible rather than the possible?
Democratic society, as we know it, is the ultimate prison, because who’s going to try to escape from a situation of apparent freedom? —David Edwards
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. –Wm. Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. –Carl Jung
When tempted to compete & conquer, look to cooperate & create. –Tony Mayo
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©2011 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Executive Coaches, Quotes and Aphorisms
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance.
To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another’s way of life – so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.
Hands off!
— Henry Miller
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
If you are an actor in your own private movie, so is everyone you encounter. You may be the star of your movie but just an extra in theirs.
Try to appreciate some of their drama before you act out yours.
–Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Executive Coaches, Quotes and Aphorisms, Recommended Books
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or
have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if (more…)
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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Inside, I’ve got to feel I’m the best, but if I tell you I’m the best, then I’m a fool.
–Bubba Smith RIP
Responsibility’s daunting allure: Most duly claim to want it but few want to fully claim it.
—Tony Mayo
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, then he who believes what is wrong.
–Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia page 49
Medal of Honor winner, “most powerful force in the world is not hatred for the enemy but love for the man next to you.” Click here to see story on this blog.
It’s like a deal you can make with the universe: I’ll give up greed for freedom. Then you can start putting your time to good use.
—David Edwards
Progress is not made by finding the ‘right answers,’ but by asking meaningful questions.
–Winograd & Flores P. 13 Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
To sell don’t just show: involve. Video here
We’re none of us perfect, so I’ve found more use for the apology than the pillory.
–Tony Mayo
Career Insanity: do same thing over and over expecting same result. You must get better just to stay even. See the video here.
Innovation Cycle: obscurity, ridicule, argument, victory.
–TonyMayo
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©2011 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Philosophical endeavors turn in a constant circle, arriving again at a point where they have already been. Thereupon materials now lying in the dust can perhaps be processed into a magnificent structure.
–Immanuel Kant, 1781
Critique of Pure Reason
Progress exists only in the realm of what is ultimately unimportant for human existence. Philosophy does not evolve in the sense of progress. Rather, philosophy is an attempt at developing and clarifying the same few problems; philosophy is the independent, free, and thoroughgoing struggle of human existence with the darkness that can break out at any time in that existence. And every clarification opens new abysses.
–Martin Heidegger, 1927
Phenomenological Interpretation of
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Ultimately we are seeking a better understanding of what it means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the ‘right answers,’ but by asking meaningful questions — ones that evoke an openness to new ways of being.
–Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores, 1986
Understanding Computers and Cognition:
A New Foundation for Design
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by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
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A mood of resignation is an evasion of responsibility. –Tony Mayo
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. –Jean-Paul Sartre (attributed)
Unless you love, your life will flash by. —Terrence Malick
We have career lattice, not ladder. People move not just up or out but sideways. —Deloitte CEO: Salzberg
Battles & businesses have been lost in the classroom but are won only in the field. –Tony Mayo
Career Insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting the same results. Today, you must get better just to stay even. –Tony Mayo
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©2011 Tony Mayo
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, For Fun, Quotes and Aphorisms
Why I’m Here
by Jacqueline Berger
Because my mother was on a date
with a man in the band, and my father,
thinking she was alone, asked her to dance.
And because, years earlier, my father
dug a foxhole but his buddy
sick with the flu, asked him for it, so he dug
another for himself. In the night
the first hole was shelled.
I’m here because my mother was twenty-seven
and …
It’s right to praise the random,
the tiny god of probability that brought us here,
to praise not meaning, but feeling, the still-warm
sky at dusk, the light that lingers and the night
that when it comes is gentle.
“Why I’m Here” by Jacqueline Berger, from The Gift That Arrives Broken. © Autumn House Press, 2010. (buy now)
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