Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.’ — Bruce Schneier #thoughtfortoday #security #safety #travel #borders #vetting In 1977 I spent the summer working at Manchester Airport. My father already worked there part-time as a tour rep. I,…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.’ — Ford Frick #thoughtfortoday #temper #management #decisions #leadership #entrepreneur #regulation #control I often think about the traits that make a good manager, leader, or entrepreneur. I also asked about these things. I would definitely put self-awareness on top of the…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.’ — Stephen Covey #thoughtfortoday #charatcer #competence #integrity #trust #management #leadership When teaching new managers I often cite…

📅 Thought for today: ‘When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.’ — Carl Jung #thoughtfortoday #emotions #conscious #fate #opportunity #talking #data I have used Jung’s words so many times in two years that I have to check my past record before using another one. Much of my work involves…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.’   — Lech Walesa   #thoughtfortoday #solidarity #Solidarność #Ukraine #windsofchange #individualism #selfdetermination   I wonder how many people remember this…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.’ — William Shakespeare #thoughtfortoday #supervision #grief #sorrow #friends #feelings #endings Supervision is a skill and process that enables people who work with other people to reflect on and explore their working relationships.…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.’   — Jane Goodall   #thoughtfortoday #change #listen #communicate #talk #mouth #ears #dialogue #telepathy   If I say “communicating” do you think talking or listening?   In situations with…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.’   — Bill Gates   #thoughtfortoday #Headlines #badnews #neuroscience #goodnews #carcrash #news   When did you last read an uplifting headline on a website or newspaper?   Personally, I can’t remember…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.’ — Peter Drucker #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneur #entrepreneurial #code #kazakhstan #innovation Did you know that the Republic of Kazakhstan has an Entrepreneur Code? I have had to rely on an English translation, so some…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.’ — Bernard Beckett #thoughtfortoday #misfortune #chance #insignificance #monsters #control #meaning It is in our nature as humans to seek patterns and meaning in all that happens to…