Comments: Daily Quote Launches
Thank you to you Cathy Mosca for being so thoughtful in compiling and making available Tom’s illuminating words of wisdom. Thanks, too, for your overall support to www.TomPeters.com+. My gratitude to Ellis for her energy and activism and illuminating contributions.
Tom put together this UNIQUE CATHEDRAL and we are having fun, thanks to his gracious and Nobel spirit and cleverness. He gave us a great opportunity. We need to acknowledge everyone’s contribution to the betterment of life at work and at home at large.
Thanks Tom. What a gift tendered! We will always remember! Here, one must compete with his/her self. Through the process, MASS COLLABORATION (a la wiki), to disseminate further the ideas of the totality of people related to this noted blog.
Quotes are extremely important to me.
There was once a European King who said, “…the size of your Universe equates to the size of your vocabulary….” I have been following up Mr. Peters’ quotations since I first bought In Search of Excellence. I capture his quotations in every book like “The Passion of Excellence.” These two books have so much present validity, its content seems ageless.
I also got the revolution of the “Re-Imagine” book. I felt in advantage to see such a beautiful book, a splendid piece of fine arts, overwhelmed with lucid content, unique differedness, useful and unconventional wisdom to get through profession and life well.
I did subscribe to the service and keep it very sacrosantly.
It’s not a mystery that I love words. I am, too, into idea dissemination. Phrases and what I call “situational phrases,” I like even more. There is a great deal of wisdom that encapsulates a tribute to words, actions, and reflections as well as to the world redefinition/re-conceptualization.
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman #1 of my preference, wrote as if everything were quotable.
So did Oscar Wilde. When, as a child, so the motion picture “The Dorian Gray Portrait,” I couldn’t avoided taking notes and notes and notes.
The first time Wilde went to the USA, he was asked by Immigration/Customs, “Do you have anything to declare,” Wilde immediately responded, “nothing but my intelligence.” Quite a superb one incidentally. He was extremely bright beyond any dispute.
Churchill, through his writings, that compete in quality and volume with those of Dickens, always recommended one read and harness many quotations. Learning them, by the way and as per Churchill, “can make you wiser.” Then, getting comfortable in The Last Lion, he said that an American of New York taught him the trick of harnessing the quotations.
Because Churchill was a genius, in Century 20, as a true statesman. He was a genius in many fields, including his super-communication, which could turn the “impossibles” into actual “viables”. He was indeed heavy into mind expansion. It does remind me of my father and my current supervisor.
Through oral communication he captured milestones. Through written communication he went even beyond.
You see, to Churchill and to many luminaries like Sir Francis Bacon, who where “Type A Primma Donnas,” words and phrases were ‘actions to be’ and mostly ‘actions to win’ and that aided the wining of the WWII. Bacon is a genius that I admire limitlessly.
I have a little hobby that it’s a bit costly. I buy a lot of quotation dictionaries. Although, not as many as I would like. Fortunately, the Internet today offers you a great deal of materiel. I give away some through my writings and blogs, since those are an asset that belongs to humankind ALL.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, read in English (my case) has numerous unbelievable quotations to open up one’s mind into RADIANT LIGHT, process through lateral, radiant thinking plus.
Some people think quotation is inexpensive and useless theory. See this one by Einstein, “…I do not know of anything more practical than theory….”
Churchill was a Genius. He was not telling about it anyone. He was self-driven and he kind of attaches a DYNAMO to the “driving forces” that DROVE his great self. A true luminary to “fire” an opaque discussion even from his passing-away point.
But Churchill wanted to know more and more words, phrases, quotations, regardless of the place were they came from/got originated. He bestowed “sense/purpose of living to his life” through re-educating and re-shaping his mind again and again in real time until the last exhalation.
The West owes him a great deal. So does the East, when you place this statement on the macro perspective. Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, being just a candidate to occupy the 10 of Downing Street, was asked a question by the journalists before the elections reassured officially his definitive winning.
Journalists asked, “Mr. Disraeli, in case you finally win, What will be your fist government action?” The statesman replied, “…sent my best friend to Sydney…”
In SHOCK, the journalist re-questioned, “…to Sydney, What for?...Disraeli, “…so that they tell me what I and my government look like from the antipodes [Australasia]…”
The Italian descent Corsican by the name Napoleon Bonaparte, although very damaging to most of Europe, obliges you to get out his thinking some pieces of ruthless wisdom for one’s personal, professional, and entrepreneurial success.
Do you remember when Bobby Kennedy ask President John Kennedy to reply the incendiary telegram from Krusheff not making acknowledgment on any negative statements, and just concentrating on the items that could be turned into a potential solution to the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and the world over the Cuban Missile Crisis?
I believed that Napoleon was such a giant, although with all its grave transgression to human rights, that his military doctrines are the genesis—to a great extent—of the U.S. Army’s doctrines today. He spoke French poorly since his mother tongue was Italian. He did speak Latin. Napoleon told the French people that if they don’t get SCIENCE and ENGLISH in the knowledge-based portfolio, they are not to be productive to their own selves AT ALL.
To get in touch with Napoleon writings and quotations is a luxury, since he considered anti-Machiavelli to use his fist to write out his heart and mind. Authors into Napoleon have had to go to great lengths to get little pieces of paragraphs to put them together accurately and orderly.
The most conspicuous Napoleon researchers are among the noted military establishment of the U.S. It’s a luxury to get to know the “good [thinking] deeds” of this guy and leave to historians the judgment of the evil deeds.
Napoleon, as Churchill, granted ‘a sine qua non’ condition to the supremacy of knowledge and specially that KNOWLEDGE DISTILLING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE.
Most everyone would like to increase the quality and quantity of their “deep smarts.” QUOTATIONS/QUOTES are an instrumental key, especially now when one must feel comfortable with anarchy, chaos (and the order from it stemming), and other phenomena. It is absolutely instrumental.
Prime historians and philosophers make certain to tell you that in the world there are times that in-the-making history grants calm times. But it also offers you agitated times. There was the wise Chinese philosopher, gathered with his disciples. And told them, “…try not to live in interesting times…” Esteemed colleagues were living INTERESTING TIMES plagued with UP-SIDE RISKS and DOWN-SIDE RISKS.
For a researcher and historian, among others, these are daring times but also extremely interesting for those WATCHING with a prepared mind (Pasteur).
Clearly, if you capture QUOTES from an extremely experienced Management/Business person as Tom and others such as Science Nobel Prize recipients and Leonardo and Newton and Brunelescchi and Shakespeare and Dickens and Bacon and Disraeli and Churchill and Einstein and Feynman, the better.
Out of the optimum, the most difficult quotes by a luminary are the top best even if, at the first reading, one doesn’t get the message. Get the message out of it. Get the message hidden between lines. Try to understand the setting and context whether those quotes were formulated.
Try to guess the color, the gray colors (various degrees), the personality, the gender, out of whom it originated to whom where designated, in what historic epoch, in what year season. That is, if one would like to get serious about LEARNING HOW TO BE A GENIUS OUT OF CREATIVE, WISE QUOTES.
In line with the previous paragraph, I might say the following.
There are quotes that enlighten you with their wisdom. There are also quote who expand you mind in times that the DRIVING FORCES, ARE OF BRUTE FORCE AND ROGUE-LY SUBTLE, under the watch of a true Monarch, namely RUTHLESS KNOWLEDGE.
We need and we will need even more MIND EXPANSION to utmost, a word that gets more complex and armored from yoctosecond to yoctosecond (one septillionth (10-24) of a second). Time to get ROCK & ROLL teleported at light speed.
Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at April 19, 2008 5:18 PM
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Thank you Ian and Judith. Yes, Who will dare to say that communication is not important? And becoming more and more so. If you Judith wish to change the “mass” quantum-ly, so do I. Why don’t we get this blog leader and founder, along with you, and Ian, the community surrounded this e-forum to put together a book on the subject and beyond? Trevor will be an instrumental talent into this.
Why not assemble a book on MAGAMENT as per these days, with a strong chapter on indispensable communication? I would sign up immediately. Let Mr. Peters take it to the market and have as many participants as possible.
Maybe, this way, Judith and Ian, we can make a difference. Notorious TomPeters.com’s blogging that can redefine the universe! An idea for your wiser consideration.
Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at April 19, 2008 9:26 PM
COMMENTS: DAILY QUOTE LAUNCHES
Thank you Judith so very much. Very interesting, connoted contributions as usual from you. Let me see. To me, my words are my actions. Actions, in my case, take place into the mindful ‘lab-to-fab’ brain to refine the optimum and get, the soonest, to the arena of reality to accomplish or to learn from my failures trying to accomplish. The brain-playing is Eistenian “gendaken”. In my case, to think it is to institute it without a fail, having consequences for certain in the physical world.
I will now offer some self-observations not because of your wonderful and insightful participation. I will do so because you deserve it and the community deserves it too. I love TRANSPARENCY. So, please do not feel uncomfortable at all, just fully comfortable and relaxed. My eternal gratitude for opening this door and let the light and air enter. I value highly your persona and contributions and activism, extensive to all of our great, esteemed colleagues.
I have been given an opportunity to say it publicly where I come from and where I plan to go, so to speak. Mainly, I would like to disseminate my ideas and opinions to the public at large, being extremely respectful of other ideas and opinions. This significant blog teaches me many lessons daily and love to learn, and love to teach but so that I can learn even more. No glory searching here!
I need a great number of words and thoughts to beget ideas and to end-up bringing about innovation. Innovation not à la 1970’s. No, Innovation as the “North Sea” of paradoxes, predicaments, contradictions, chaos, etc., stemming from Centrueyr-21 “terra incognita.” There are way too many “terra incognita” settings defiance us daily.
Take my profession, if my PERSONAL THINKING IS NOT ENRICHED AND DIVERSED AND OPENED AND IRREVERENT AND REVISIONIST, 100,000 people may die because the risk management(1) processes instituted by Andy has a flaw OF HIS. This I cannot afford at all. Not only because of value, because of RULE OF LAW and because of RULE OF LEGITIMACY.
I, too, belong to an established religion. I get from it the ABSOLUTE VALUES and then keep MERITOCRACY and TECHNOCRACY at his most industrious workings. Not to let 100,000 souls die (1 corporate client only), I need to stretch foresight, not hindsight. So my mind through endless scenarios is always and in perpetual real-time asking himself, What if, Andy?
Beyond having to be innovative, as per my own saying, even when I feel not up to it, I must do it. IN ADDITTION, Systems Risks Managers must always think on extensive CONTIGENCY PLANNING, especially so since 9/11, the advent of Internet, and other pervasive novelties. In the process, I daily research 150 pages (text books) of about 300 words per page. I must follow through my contract. In fact, my contact is demanding so that I must demand even more from myself. THEN, I MUST DELIVERY WITH SOME RESPECTFUL LEVEL OF CERTAINTY AND ACCURACY.
I was strongly indoctrinated by “signature” global corporations that way. If I get out my stiffest indoctrination, people will die because of my being sub-standard. I, clearly, will become unemployed. The latter is irrelevant, since I have many interests.
I am not talking, just to be on the safe side, of accomplishing everything. I meant to be stubbornly engaged in attempting to accomplish the most as I learn more and more, because of the trade. Not learning to say that I am a big shot, in fact, I learn a great deal daily. The more I learned, the more ignorant I become to my self-judgment to my honor.
I do judgment on myself, on situations, on work, and, if urgent, on people. I don’t read Sci-Fi and IMAGINE SCI-FACT TO REMEDY PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT, NOW. I critic myself strongly and frequently. I don’t compete with anyone but with myself only. When I go to the marketplace against a competitor, to me really means to play with a teacher, a grandmaster. I don’t care about egos. There are too many EXISTENTIAL PROBLEMS, sometimes hidden, that we must face immediately and differently.
I don’t care of Mr. X’ or Ms. Y’s ego, because, in dealing with overwhelming challenges (that are so educational), I am a UTILITARIAN PAGMATIST. This does not imply that I will surrender my “ABSOLUTE VALUES.” It means that I will aggressively take care of the life-to-death problem first. Then, I will ask for the Lord’s constriction. And keep on making a better person of myself, a self that is not in search of Glory, but in search of that one who IS SEARCHING TOO.
I like complexity, from disliking it I fell in love with it. Why? Originated in the beloved, Ancient Greeks’s Thinking (perspective), I found out why something, in an epoch of my life some many years ago, allow me to JUMP ABOVE ROADBLOCKS. I may sound egocentric or not. Actually, I am fully multi-centric and extremely multicultural, spiced by the heaviest fingerprint stamped on me by the U.S., the U.K., and Anglo-Canada.
If you saw me setting, clearly the books and annotations and mind-maps and other graphs and illustrations all over the place. To many instance, you would come to think that, pertaining my life style, I live simply, cleanly, and humbly. My road has some meeting points with Goethe, Leonardo, and Einstein, no more than 0.5%. I like the Pope but I also like, for instance, the Holly Dalai Lama.
Though, I am very Western. Wearing a blue jean and a polo shirt I may resemble a portrait of Monk. This is the way of being well-groomed in the East, reflecting on some problems that may shake the world. But I like to take a bike to 200 miles per hour too. Go to all-dress-up social encounter, a cocktail party. Civility of metropolis is key to me, like the great city of London, one of my favorites along with NYC. I also like the sea and the mountains, the literature, philosophy from the translucid, and MOZART.
I do like many things that seem primma faccia contradictory. They are all complementary to me. I remember that politicians in the British Parliament told Churchill frequently that he changed too often his political positions. Churchill responded, as long as I can serve my country best, I will have the right to alter or change anything. You see, none changed Churchill’s concern about attempting to preclude WWII. When one looks quietly with “long pondering” (Darwin), I resemble this a bit.
You can change methods, techniques, standards, benchmarks, goals, objectives, BUT NEVER YOUR ULTIMATE END, to protect people and other physical assets from total disruption. My U.S. professors kept on telling me, “Andy, AIM HIGH, AIM HIGH and never stop….” I “aim high” into a something that might have a chapter of Social Function, with or without supervisors, clients, value chains, partners, allies, so forth.
To be so much into being EXCELLENT in my profession, taught to me by a Jesuit priest, it is no problem because I was not born PERFECT. I was born a PERFECTIONIST in deed. Cordial, amicable, respectful, one that exercises tolerance. One who disseminates ideas trying to help a tiny bit. I am highly adaptable to nearly any environment. That’s, at least, what I believe. I like to help, to assist, to be useful.
Money is important but is not my first priority. When my father passed away, I couldn’t get it over. A couple of years went by, I felt so miserable. I asked my Catholic priest to recommend me something to calm down that profound pain. He recommend me “Andy, please READ, READ, READ….” I’m afraid to say that I am a “library worm.” That causes nothing to my ego, because I just wish PEACE. Last year, my mother surprised with her passing away. I am not down. But it is as if she were telling me not to stop studying, researching, working, inquiring, reflecting, and writing. Every time I write I feel I honor my parents as I tried to help, in a any micro way, others.
I asked my supervisor that I wanted to present my respects to his Protestant Church, to his reverend. He asked, “Why?” Because, Dr. Grose, we need to reach out for every church and credo that is well established. My conversation with the reverend was grandiose. I don’t like to separate anything, but to integrate, respecting everyone’s independent POVs and systems of beliefs and values.
This world is, say, damaged in many senses. Someone in other section of the current blog name deception. Yes, CORRUPTION runs rampt-ly everywhere. Many read and implements the workings and precepts of “The Prince” (Machiavelli), “The Art of War”, “The Japanese Art of War,” “The Hindu Art of War,” which I dislike so much. Today a candy is taking away from a child using Machiavellic practices. In world of business, it is horrendous.
Sine I am not a moralist, when I train, indoctrinate, and consult, I tell people FORCEFULLY that if a minimum of ethics is not practiced the Earth will vanished for the sixth time. I stress it over the training activity over trice. One will not need the nukes, just keep it corrupted.
Although I insist forcefully on ACTING RIGHT AND RIGHTEOUS, I don’t get my religion into my profession, I don’t (expressly) my spirituality into my profession, I don’t get dogmas or ideologies into my profession. I do practice “peaceful-practices” transfer to calm everyone when possible. Many people are extremely in feared and agitated and aggravated because of lack of knowledge, they don’t have a clear understanding (up to maximum, never to the totality) of what this world of us has become, mainly because of Sep/11.
I tell them that if we are not fearful of advanced technologies and make a constructive use of it, we (U.S.) can certainly make a huge shift to recover public confidence, just to mention one.
I am working on SUCCESS TENETS for a book manuscript. The handwritten manuscript is 95% ready. This will take some time. It may contain some 1,200 precepts. I have researched heavily the subject and leadership (I call it “trans-leadership”).
By the way, something seemingly weird happens to me. The more I become engaged into intellectuality, the more I get engaged into spirituality. Then, both “realms” reinforce themselves. They do bring me some inner peace.
When it is ready, I will decide and make it public to the honorable community of this wonderful community. In the meantime, I have the following precepts for your wiser consideration (please click on the link):
http://www.agostinisuccess.blogspot.com/
Risk management (1). I have my own method. It’s called “Transformative Risk Management.” DEFINITION: “TRANSFORMATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT consists of all activities and countermeasures required to obtain the optimum degree of risk elimination and control within the stages of pre-facto/during/post-facto/lessons learned/enhancement constraints of operational effectiveness, time and cost, achieved through the systematic, systemic, holistic, gestalt application of management, scientific, and engineering principles throughout all phases of the systems operation designated. This methodology was designed by Andres Agostini, www.AndyBelieves.blogspot.com, in 2005”.
Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at April 19, 2008 11:42 PM
Comments: Organizational Excellence
Good points. It’s inside customers plus outside customers plus (the sometimes long) value chain. No full integration, no tango. By reversed engineering, the client is the functional monarch. Once you have identified the range of profiles within your customers and from your industry, then you pick the most talented people to go for the uncanny service to get the boss delighted.
By keeping your customers delighted by your talented team of splendid employees, it’s true you’re instilling more and more into your branding and uniqueness.
Yes, some firms do place clientele second. See, though, everything is first and in a hurry with an unprecedented quality. None wishes to be perfect. But many wish –even those coming from the most disadvantageous countries—the latest Rolls Royce.
The stakeholders, the board of directors, the chair-person and so forth are also demanding clients to delight.
Posted by Andres Agostini (Andy) at May 8, 2008 9:56 PM
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