Quips & Quick Asides – The Caneelian – Leadership, Creativity, Startups, Organizational Culture https://www.caneelian.com The personal blog of Caneel Joyce PhD, executive coach & culture builder. Work is a spiritual journey and sometimes a total cluster. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:01:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.8 33319490 Fiction https://www.caneelian.com/2011/01/11/fiction/ https://www.caneelian.com/2011/01/11/fiction/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:01:28 +0000 http://caneelian.com/?p=866300342 I often hear people say that they no longer read novels; that if they’re going to take the time to read a book, they want to learn something. But “nonfiction” means neither objective nor important. Fiction teaches empathy and truth about the impossible diversity human experience: This is NOT a waste of time. Reading novels …

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]]> https://www.caneelian.com/2011/01/11/fiction/feed/ 1 866300342 Quote: Love, Age, and Beauty https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/20/835990932/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/835990932 There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. Françoise Sagan (#quote in NYTimes.com article)

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]]> 835990932 A Passing Thought https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/16/819663706/ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/819663706 The market for something to believe in is infinite Hugh MacLeod (via nuradical) #quote

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]]> 819663706 Missing inspiration? https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/25/735952623/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:05:48 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/735952623 I don’t worry about inspiration. I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, ‘Well, now it’s writing time and now I’ll write.’ There’s no difference on paper between the two. Frank Herbert, science fiction writer (via @academicladder)

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]]> 735952623 And Van Halen sings “Write now!” https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/25/734300339/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:41:00 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/734300339 If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who would listen to me if I do? You’re a human being with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. Yours enlarges the …

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]]> 734300339 La carte blanche https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/20/718112499/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:35:00 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/718112499 That initial element contains an enormous number of built-in decisions that limit the scope of the intellectual or visual problem at hand, thankfully preventing the paralysis that results from the overwhelming unlimited scope of decision contained in a blank page or empty space. The initial element provides a leverage point for expression. Also that starting element helps to …

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]]> 718112499 Quote: On Products & Philosophy https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/20/717970177/ Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:21:50 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/717970177 There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and building a product around a philosophy. Dustin Curtis (via 9-bits)

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]]> 717970177 The end is not nigh! https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/18/711580634/ Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:21:30 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/711580634 If you are a knowledge worker, cognitive capitalist, or a Reichian symbolic analyst, you will not be retiring at 65. Period. The 15 Minutes that Could Save Five Years – Michael Schrage – Harvard Business Review “Everyone reading this should take 15 hard minutes to ruthlessly reassess the reality of the “new” final years of …

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]]> 711580634 Quote: Improvisation starts somewhere https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/09/680437902/ Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:37:51 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/680437902 You can’t improvise on nothing, man; you’ve gotta improvise on something. Jazz great Charles Mingus as quoted in Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (by Keith Sawyer, 2008)

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]]> 680437902 The real ‘Big Picture’ subjects https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/20/616819135/ Thu, 20 May 2010 18:47:28 +0000 http://caneelian.tumblr.com/post/616819135 A grasp of finance, strategy, marketing and all those “big picture” subjects only forms part of a serious leader’s education. Those sometimes neglected or disdained topics – organisational development and behaviour, communication, team dynamics – that are often rejected as insubstantial turn out to be crucial to success as a leader. Stefan Stem, in the …

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