...everything

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski, engineer, mathematician, and philosopher (1879-1950)

Execution is where leadership becomes visible

McKinsey noted that healthy organizations turn vision into results through four key elements:

01Accountability

02Coordination

 

03Capabilities

04Motivation

 

...short decisive war?

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. 

-Robert Lynd, writer (1879-1949)

History by geography

History is all explained by geography. 

-Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905-1989)

...wrong questions

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

-Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)