‘I could tell you my adventures — beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’
‘Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle.
‘No, no! The adventures first,’ said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: ‘explanations take such a dreadful time.’
Lewis Carroll — Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The queerness of nonsense language and the bizarre rules and regulation the creatures try to impose on Alice tell us much about the terrifying arbitrariness of the world she has to operate in. One of the great appeals is that […] they dramatise the puzzling nature of identity in a world dominated by rules and rulers that remain obstinately unpredictable and indecipherable.
Hugh Haughton — Introduction to Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass
Your direct reports spend a lot of time thinking how best to influence you. You probably spend time listening to them try to influence you. You can save them and yourself time and effort simply by telling them what it will take to influence you.
Roger Schwarz — Smart Leaders Smarter Teams
We all know the gist: linked lists are cool, but they when they tend to grow performance drops considerably. Lookup speed and allocation overhead can be costly. The migration to trees or other structures may or may not bring the desired results. In contrast, embedding a number of elements into linked list node can help quite a bit with all of these issues.
I saw a friend of mine the other day,
And he told me that my eyes were gleamin’.
Oh I said I had been away, and he knew,
Oh he knew the depths I was meanin’.
And it felt so good to see his face,
Or the comfort invested in my soul.
Oh to feel the warmth of a smile,
When he said “I’m happy to have you home”.
Ooh, “I’m happy to have you home.”
If you or your team members believe that you must first have trust before you can start moving to mutual learning, then you are confusing cause and effect, and will probably never build or rebuild trust. Trust develops when team members take risks by making themselves vulnerable — for example, by being transparent — and see that others do not use the vulnerability against them.
Roger Schwarz — Smart Leaders Smarter Teams
lost and found
with no one around
I’d like to be proud but
it’s hard to get noticed
roaming around
in, out of town
without any sound
the whirlwinds are sweeping
the pace I’m keeping
don’t you grow cold in your heart
tearing a lifetime apart
though all your skies these days feel grey
oh, shut up and lead the way
cause I won’t make it without you
and I wish you’d see this truth