topic: leadership

20 Jun 09
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There's nothing to me in the world as rewarding as making people do things they don't believe they could do. You've made 'em bigger in their eyes. Bigger in their family's eyes. Bigger in the community's eyes. Nobody will ever do them a favor that great, but they'll hate you for the rest of their life because of the pressure you had put on them. Yet that is very rewarding to me. Jay Slabaugh, interviewed by Studs Terkel. In American Dreams: Lost and Found (1980). Pantheon Books, New York. pg 38.

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6 simple rules for being a trickster

18 May 09
in

from Emily Levine's theory of everything

Six simple rules for being a trickster, inspired by Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde:

  1. Boundary crossing: being a go-between
  2. Non-oppositional strategies: not contradiction, but paradox
  3. Accidents: having a mind that is prepared for the unprepared, holding your ideas lightly
  4. Making connections: short-circuiting people's thinking
  5. Poise: walking a fine line between prepared & unprepared
  6. Not having a home: always being on the road

Wonderful advice for creatives & leaders!

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