Sublime

One way to keep a project moving is to have someone who feels ownership for the whole thing, rather than any of its individual parts.

This was illustrated brilliantly to me by Professor Bill Meehan, who spent thirty years with McKinsey advising CEOs and senior leaders on strategy and now teaches a class called “The Strategic Management of Nonprofits” at the Stanford School of Business.

Largely due to his work, dimensionality became the supreme innovation of Renaissance art.

“Buildings that lie so exposed to the weather need a good foundation.”

Structured goals give backers a yardstick for success: We’re going to build this product, and we’ve proven the market by talking to twenty-five customers, and here’s how much they’re willing to pay.

Successful people are those who can go above themselves to see things objectively and manage those things to shape change.

“A new type of thinking is essential if [humanity] is to survive and

using repurposed materials.