“Market leadership, while not the sole definition of success, can be a powerful aspiration for companies and their boards.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm unsullied by human struggle, it will always be entangled with the world we live in.”
Source: The Tropic of Serpents
“If the company is going to thrive financially, then the board must understand the relationship between different financial metrics and how they impact overall financial performance.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Corporate governance involves its fair share of differing investor expectations, but focusing on long-term value creation aligns interests.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Like the brain's command center, the board provides the highest level of cognitive function for the organization. They are the "big picture" thinkers, setting strategic direction, overseeing management, and representing the interests of shareholders and stakeholders.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Shaping the company's future requires actively engaging with shareholders and other stakeholders to build trust and understanding.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Effective board members employ active listening skills, acknowledge opposing viewpoints, and focus on finding common ground.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.”
Source: the bell jar
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.'
I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.”
“Still, feeling deeply that his filth was as unforgivable imposition, he'd chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.
Who knew?”
Source: Strange the Dreamer