There is always something provisional about a decision to stop doing something until you have actually replaced it with something else. A new beginning “ratifies” the ending.
William Bridges, Susan Bridges in Managing Transitions
Archives for February 2020
Highlight from ‘The Culture Code’ by Daniel Coyle
Like any language, belonging cues can’t be reduced to an isolated moment but rather consist of a steady pulse of interactions within a social relationship. Their function is to answer the ancient, ever-present questions glowing in our brains: Are we safe here? What’s our future with these people? Are there dangers lurking?
Daniel Coyle in The Culture Code
Highlight from ‘The Culture Code’ by Daniel Coyle
Group performance depends on behavior that communicates one powerful overarching idea: We are safe and connected.
Daniel Coyle in The Culture Code
Highlight from ‘Reboot’ by Jerry Colonna
Years before, I’d given him the metaphor I often use with clients: “Take your seat.” “Sit like royalty in your leadership seat,” I say. “Sit as if you’ve the right to be there.”
Jerry Colonna in Reboot
Highlight from ‘The Greatest Knight’ by Thomas Asbridge
The twelfth century marked the start of a decisive shift across Europe towards the use of stone, rather than wood, in building and construction. This brought numerous advantages, not least the ability to create fireplaces and chimneys that were much more efficient and effective than central fires and open roofs.
Thomas Asbridge in The Greatest Knight
Highlight from ‘Proof’ by Adam Rogers
Way back in 1937, the humorist James Thurber stuck it to this kind of pompous, meaning-free connoisseurship in a New Yorker cartoon showing a wine taster saying of a glass, “It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”
Adam Rogers in Proof