We got to the point where, we are not on our grandparents' planet anymore. Meat has become less healthy for us – it's too available. There are too many calories, too much saturated fat. Animals are no longer 'free-rangy', they are growing in very tight confined conditions.
— Yaakov Nahmias“Instead of militaries fighting militaries, we now have militaries or military motivated agents that are able to activate civilians in each other's countries. Social media is global national security threat, and one that we're not even spending billions of dollars to protect against.”— Tristan Harris
Design ethicist & founder of Center for Humane Technology
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If a company doesn't have a purpose, I think they are wasting their life. Making money should be the result of helping people to build businesses.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
You cannot just say to people, 'oh be creative' and then there will be a waste of time. You have to be very clear in what you are looking for and listen to people.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
Being creative is about being a collective. It's not something unique. That's why we can nurture each other's creativity.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
At Cirque, we never talk about diversity because we live diversity. We have people in our organisation coming from 80 different countries. I like to describe us as citizens of the world.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
There is no business without creativity. Creativity for me is the first condition to establish yourself as a leader in whatever you do in life.
— Daniel LamarrePresident and CEO of Cirque du Soleil
Sometimes it doesn't matter if the other side doesn't care about fairness; provided you do, you explain what's going on. Now it's arbitrary versus arbitrary versus principle versus arbitrary.
— Barry NalebuffCo-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
What I like the most and essentially is never done is to start off a negotiation by talking about how you'll negotiate, what's the process going to be? And to say things like 'my goal in this negotiation is to reach an agreement with you in which we create a giant pie and split it evenly.'
— Barry NalebuffCo-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
I think the people who are larger or those who have more resources like to think they're the ones who have greater power… and they have benefited from that illusion.
— Barry NalebuffCo-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
People don't know what it is that they're negotiating over… If you don't, then it's hard to know if you've gotten a bad deal, a fair deal, or a great deal! That's going to lead us to the negotiation pie, and with the negotiation pie comes the extra value that negotiators create by coming together.
— Barry NalebuffCo-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
A lot of negotiation is teaching people tricks or verbal games, as opposed to providing a framework for thinking about negotiation. People want to come up with a solution that's fair. But what they think of as fair is often proportional division, and that just arises because they don't really understand what they're negotiating over.
— Barry NalebuffCo-Author of "Co-opetition" & Yale School of Management Professor
As Carl von Clausewitz said, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy.' It's not about having a plan, it's about planning. When you are in a fluid situation, things change, and you have to adapt quickly. You cannot freeze into inaction.
— Pepyn DinandtYou become an entrepreneur, not by intent, but by accident. Those for me are the true entrepreneurs- people that just start building, perhaps even without a plan, they just do it. Look at the most famous ones…. Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, they never went to shows or to training, they just got on with it.
— Pepyn DinandtIt doesn't matter how successful you are, how much market share you have, if you're in your comfort zone you will leave yourself exposed. Courage also links to decisiveness, which is one of the key attributes of great leaders. Cowardice pushes the day of reckoning out, decisiveness brings it closer.
— Pepyn DinandtIn crises, people need to hear one or two simple messages to act on – not a confusing list. Through your communication, you also need to project certainty – and the fact that you have a plan (even if it's not fully formulated). Your team need to believe that they, and you, are going to get the job done.
— Pepyn DinandtI don't think we can love God more than our greatest good. I think He is our greatest good. I don't think we can desire Him more than happiness. I think that ultimately, He is our happiness.
— J. BudziszewskiProfessor of Government and Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin