Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jul 292019
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jun 262019
A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 242019
The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
May 102019
The common enemy that cements the bonds of the squadron in war is, in theory, the opposing army; in practice it is the brass.
Apr 012019
As a competent worker will be promoted into incompetence, so a valuable method or technique will infiltrate disciplines in which it is useless or harmful.
Mar 082019
Exalt theory over practice, and youth over age will shortly follow.
Feb 142019
A sudden influx into a profession or discipline signals either its robust health or its terminal illness.
Feb 122019
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; and he who does, usually cannot teach.
Dec 312018
Business problems are nearly always personnel problems, especially in sole proprietorships.
Dec 142018
Do what you love for a living, and learn to hate it.