I hung this poem on my wall when I was young. It took me forty years to understand. Yeats was a dreamer and a fighter, an Irish poet born in 1865 who believed the modern world was losing its soul to materialism, dullness, and disconnection. He saw life as enchanted, filled with myth, mystery, ancient…
“It must have been some time in 1979 that I first heard the words, ‘But James, if there were a better way to make a vacuum cleaner, Hoover or Electrolux would have invented it.’” — James Dyson, Against the Odds James Dyson built 5,127 prototypes before his bagless Dual Cyclone vacuum worked. It started with…
“Tiger, one day you will come to a fork in the road,” he said. “And you’re going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go.” He raised his hand and pointed. “If you go that way you can be somebody.You will have to make compromises and you will have to…
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed…”– Arthur Schopenhauer (attributed) Any challenge to an established power triggers opposition. It is natural. It is expected. It has always been. Machiavelli noted 500 years ago that the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order. One…
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed…”– Arthur Schopenhauer (attributed) After oil collapsed in 2018, Nabors Industries was overburdened with debt. Many peers filed for bankruptcy; others incurred massive dilution through conventional debt-for-equity swaps and liability management exercises. But the CEO, who owned a large stake, refused to dilute out his shareholders…
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