Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses

The investment portfolio depends on ownership stakes.

It is a form of optimism in the face of uncertainty.

as Edgar Bronfman Sr. once said, “To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.”

The team is everything. That moment of bringing people in sets the ceiling of possibility. The new hire is as serious to the health of the team as an organ transplant is to the health of the body. You want the best people you can find, and the ones who will contribute most positively to the team.

the superpower of the guide is in reflecting you back to yourself, the guide exudes rigor—the honesty of a mirror—but in the language of kindness and with the generosity of accepting your own premise as the starting point.

The Buddhist teacher Matthieu Ricard calls this dilemma “empathy fatigue.” In a study of doctors and nurses, Ricard and his collaborator Tania Singer, a neuroscientist and director of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, found that those who have empathy—who identify directly with their patients’ difficulties—get burned out. Those who have

because the colleague-friendship has dimensions of performance requirement that regular friendships don’t, you may disagree. Being able to have a difficult conversation without emotional undertow is a hallmark of a colleague-friend. That requires a high degree of trust, which means, facile as it sounds, that the truest route to colleague-friendship

That simple observation led to the distinction between fixed costs—those that you incur no matter how much you produce—and variable costs—those like materials that you only incur when you produce something. The distinction led Wedgwood to realize the advantages of specializing in product lines where he could produce larger quantities of the same go

Work—whether literal employment or showing up presently in any area of your life—has dignity. Pope Francis himself worked as both a chemical lab technician and a nightclub bouncer before going to seminary in 1957.