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Promo Poster of the Day: The truth is strong in this one, etc.
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Promo Poster of the Day: The truth is strong in this one, etc.
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"Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going."
Bureaucracies /via Solitude and Leadershipi
"Management is the delusion that you can change people. Leadership is deluding other people instead of deluding yourself."
Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle /via Leah Besa-Jimenez
Why Bill Murray Is Bill Murray
- GQ: Last question. I have to know, because I love this story and want it to be true. There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City, covering their eyes with your hands, and saying: Guess who. And when they turn around, they see Bill Murray and hear the words "No one will ever believe you."
- Bill Murray: [long pause] I know. I know, I know, I know. I've heard about that from a lot of people. A lot of people. I don't know what to say. There's probably a really appropriate thing to say. Something exactly and just perfectly right. [long beat, and then he breaks into a huge grin] But by God, it sounds crazy, doesn't it? Just so crazy and unlikely and unusual?
Humbled that my first name is there. I’m famous. Not. /via World Cup 2010: the final goal, in words by @Twitter
This Generation Sucks /hat tip @iA
It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you.
- Tom Bishop: I thought spies drank martinis.
- Nathan Muir: Scotch, never less than twelve years old.
- Tom Bishop: Is that right? Agency rules?
- Nathan Muir: My rules.
