[Celebrate your Mistakes November 17, 2011]
http://positivesharing.com/2010/06/top-5-reasons-to-celebrate-mistakes-at-work/

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually.

[Leadership & Discipline  November 14, 2011]
http://www.n2growth.com/blog/finding-the-zone/

The difference between good and great often comes down to discipline. So my question is this – how disciplined are you as a leader? Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline. I’m not suggesting that leaders should be robotic or static in approach – quite to the contrary. Implementing a framework of discipline allows leaders more flexibility not less. While subjecting yourself to the rigor of discipline is not easy, it is essential if you want to maximize your effectiveness as a leader. The best leaders I know are extremely disciplined people – they simply do the things others are not willing to do.  Are you disciplined in all facets of your life, or just those which come more easily to you?

[Filling the Void: Thoughts on Learning and Karma  November 16, 2011]
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/11/16/filling-the-void-thoughts-on-learning-and-karma/#more-6281

From the man who brought us the 4 hr work week.

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
-Viktor E. Frankl, Holocaust survivor, author of Man’s Search for Meaning”

[Not All Metrics Are Created Equal  November 17 2011.]
http://www.n2growth.com/blog/not-all-metrics-are-created-equal

“Measurements in this category are where an organization truly becomes productive with analytics. These sets of metrics focus on the measurements surrounding things that develop talent, create engagement, build teams, manage the customer experience, improve customer satisfaction and increase brand equity. Getting to the qualitative level of performance measurement is difficult in that it is often necessary to overcome a set of traditional leadership behaviors and beliefs.”