Finding Your Creative Lobster

Finding Your Creative Lobster

In a discussion on spirituality, the philosopher and poet John O’Donohue translated a Gaelic expression of the Irish fishermen “Is fánach an áit a gheobfá gliomach” into: “‘It is in the unexpected or neglected place that you will find the lobster.'”...
The 130-Hour Work-Week?

The 130-Hour Work-Week?

There has recently been some mild controversy in the investment banking community about the role of the 130-hour work-week for their junior employees, with some of the old guard thinking this is just fine—based, I believe, on the principle “I did it, so you should...

Deciding vs. Committing

Etymologically, a decision is: A noun of action from past-participle stem of decidere “to decide, determine,” literally “to cut off,” from de “off” (see de-) + caedere “to cut.”etymologyonline.com Whereas a commitment,...