by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, How to Set Goals, Quotes and Aphorisms, Recommended Books
What a wonderful power the machine gives you but, is it going to dominate you? The statement of what the need and want is must come from you not from the machine. Not from the government that’s teaching you or not even from the clergy, it has to come from one’s own inside and the minute that you let that drop and take what the dictation (dictator) of the time is instead of the dictation of your own eternity is you have capitulated to the devil and you are in hell.
–Joseph Campbell
The Hero’s Journey
by Tony Mayo | For Executive Coaches, Quotes and Aphorisms
Theory
Whether you can
observe a thing
depends upon the
theory you are using.
–Albert Einstein
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Cheerful Giver
The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.
–II Corinthians 9:6-8
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Shut Me Out
They drew a circle that shut me out
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win;
We drew a circle that took them in.
–Edwin Markham
by Tony Mayo | Communication, Conversation, & Confrontation, For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
The principles of meeting facilitation, as delineated three centuries ago.
…a mutual deference is affected; contempt of others disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained, without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. These attentions and regards are immediately agreeable to others, abstracted from any consideration of utility or beneficial tendencies: they conciliate affection, promote esteem, and extremely enhance the merit of the person who regulates his behaviour by them.
–David Hume 1711-1776
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
Section VIII Of Qualities Immediately Agreeable To Others.
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Indifference
The opposite of love is not to hate
It is indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness
It is indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy
It is indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death
It is indifference.
–Elie Wiesel
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
In the Arena
It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that
his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.
–President Theodore Roosevelt
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Quotes and Aphorisms
Life is not lost by dying!
Life is not lost
minute by minute,
day by dragging day,
in all the thousand
small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing
compromises of time.
Life can be lost without
vision but not lost by death.
Lost by not caring,
not willing,
not going on
beyond the ragged edge of
fortitude
To something more –
something no man has ever
seen.
–Stephen Vincent Benét
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Leadership Development
The Motley Fool: As you well know, Costco has taken some heat on Wall Street for being overly generous to its employees. According to a recent New York Times story, Costco store workers earn an average of around $17 an hour, which is 42% more than employees at Sam’s Club, which is owned by Wal-Mart. You have said Costco’s pay structure makes for good business. Explain.
Costco co-founder & CEO Jim Sinegal: Well, first of all, we have a very low turnover in our company. Our turnover is something in the 20% range, and that is including a lot of seasonal hires that we have both in the summer and at Christmas. After employees have been with us for more than a year, that turnover rate goes below 6%, so we take great pride in the fact that people join us and they stay with us. Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that — if you provide careers — that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.
Costco vs. Wal-Mart
Comparing some workplace statistics,
as reported by the companies.
- Employees covered by company health insurance
- Insurance-enrollment waiting periods (for part-time workers)
- Costco 6 months
- Wal-Mart 2 years
- Portion of health-care premium paid by company
- Annual worker turnover rate
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, For Executive Coaches, Team Manager Skills
Passion is not something you follow. It’s something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world.
…
The traits that lead people to love their work are general and have little to do with a job’s specifics. These traits include a sense of autonomy and the feeling that you’re good at what you do and are having an impact on the world. Decades of research on workplace motivation back this up. (Daniel Pink’s book Drive offers a nice summary of this literature.)
These traits can be found in many jobs, but they have to be earned. Building valuable skills is hard and takes time. For someone in a new position, the right question is not, “What is this job offering me?” but, instead, “What am I offering this job?”
–Cal Newport, Ph.D.
New York Times
September 30, 2012
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