Brian Allain

Myth and Reality

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Myth: Trust is soft. Reality: Trust is hard, real, and quantifiable. It measurably affects both speed and cost. Myth: Trust is slow. Reality: Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Myth: Trust is built solely on integrity.

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Humanly Best

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner After Buechner’s father’s death, the family moved to Bermuda, rather to Grandma Buechner’s disapproval: YOU SHOULD STAY AND face reality” she wrote, and in terms of what was humanly best, this was perhaps the soundest advice she could have given us: that

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the ground zero of innovation was not the microscope. It was the conference table

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The most striking discovery in Dunbar’s study turned out to be the physical location where most of the important breakthroughs occurred. With a science like molecular biology, we inevitably have an image in our heads of the scientist alone in the

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When we get to the top our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr Most of us are never told that we can set out from the known and the familiar to take on a further journey. Our institutions and our expectations, including our churches, are almost entirely configured to encourage, support, reward, and validate

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