Azumaya

In the tra­di­tion of the Japan­ese Tea Cer­e­mo­ny, an azu­maya is a wait­ing room or arbor, where a per­son may qui­et­ly con­tem­plate and enjoy a view of the sur­round­ing gar­den before enter­ing the cer­e­mo­ny. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, an azu­maya is an open affair, no walls, in order to let in the light and breezes and sur­round­ing ener­gy. … Con­tin­ue read­ing Azu­maya

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On Competition

Gary Hamel on his Man­age­ment Inno­va­tion Exchange web­site has writ­ten a fine post on empow­er­ing nat­ur­al lead­ers, con­trast­ing the pow­er of the inter­net with the pow­er of for­mal hier­ar­chies. Along the way, he writes: The Inter­net is flat, open and mere­tri­cious. Nev­er­the­less, there are thou­sands of nat­ur­al hier­ar­chies online. Pick any sub­ject, search the blo­gos­phere,… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Com­pe­ti­tion

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Inner Wildness

There may be all too lit­tle true wilder­ness left on our shrink­ing globe, but there is still plen­ty of wilder­ness with­in.  The path toward lead­ing suc­cess­ful­ly is all too often mea­sured in exter­nal out­comes, but the truth we know is that it is also mea­sured in “incomes,” the degree to which a human being is… Con­tin­ue read­ing Inner Wild­ness

On Meaning

I am aware that I am con­stant­ly at work on my choic­es, espe­cial­ly the big one, my con­stant re-choos­ing to be the per­son I have decid­ed to be. To do oth­er­wise would lead me into inse­cu­ri­ty, dis­con­ti­nu­ity, a major loss of iden­ti­ty. Choos­ing and re-choos­ing is my sta­bil­i­ty and home base. Each day I am… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Mean­ing