Year After Year After Year, People Write

In The First Stage Of Insight-building, All That Researchers Can Do Is Observe Phenomena. Second, They Classify The Phenomena In A Way That Helps Them Simplify The Apparent Complexities Of The World So They Can Ignore The Meaningless Differences And Draw Connections Between The Things That Really Seem To Matter. Third, Based On The Classification System, They Propose A Theory. The Theory Is A Statement Of What Causes What And Why, And Under What Circumstances.

Regulatory Fiat Cannot Create A Market At A Technologically Interdependent Interface. And By The Same Token, Regulation And So-called Monopoly Power Rarely Prevail At Modular Interfaces Between Stages Of Value-added Technology.

Don't Worry About The Level Of Individual Prominence You Have Achieved; Worry About The Individuals You Have Helped Become Better People.

Often They [writers On The Study Of Management] Have A Point Of View Based Upon Intuition And Experience. They Then Offer A Cadence Of Two-paragraph Examples Carefully Selected To "prove" Their Theory, And Then They Write "one Size Fits All" Books. The Message Is, "if You'd Do What These Companies Did, You'd Be Successful Too."

I've Concluded That The Metric By Which God Will Assess My Life Isn't Dollars, But The Individual People Whose Lives I've Touched. I Think That's The Way It Will Work For Us All. Don't Worry About The Level Of Individual Prominence You Have Achieved; Worry About The Individuals You Have Helped Become Better People.