Good questions outrank easy answers. The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops. Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. The first duty of love is to listen. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. |