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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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Personal Development
"Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea."
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Personal Development
"Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection."
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Personal Development
"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
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Personal Development
"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
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Personal Development
"I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy."
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Personal Development
"Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews."
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Personal Development
"Confession. Years ago, I was invited to a cocktail party for an Asian-American networking group. As I introduced myself to a Japanese businessman, I reached out and firmly shook his hand. Much to my embarrassment now, I automatically took my other hand and wrapped our hands in a "hand hug. This is a common gesture of friendship in the South. As his wife approached, however, she appeared appalled and felt disrespected that I was touching her husband. Our cultural differences were marked. Despite this cultural mishap, I was able to redeem myself. We all moved past it and delighted in an interesting conversation. Physical touch is a touchy topic (pun intended), especially when various cultures are involved."
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Personal Development
"The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation."
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Personal Development
"Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves - and other animals."
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Personal Development
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"Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective."
Innovation
"Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps."
Innovation
"Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization."
Change
"The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done."
Success
"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."
Discipline
"A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual."
Philosophy
"A tech-savvy Board sets a right tone for shaping the culture of innovation."
Business
"An intelligent organization is not about the "cleverness of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business."
Business
"Generally speaking, the key dimensions of corporate governance are strategy oversight, policy making, accountability, and monitoring."
Business
"Every authentic leader needs to mind certain gaps and bridge the cognitive difference."
Leadership
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