Everyone thinks they are creative; very few people actually are. They could be, but they are frightened that their creations will be spurned, mocked or laughed at, and they cannot face failure. We all need to succeed. Those who demand unremitting total success end up doing very little. The risk-averse remain solvent but poor.

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Would mankind have done better if our forecasting had been more accurate? Would we have taken steps to avoid climate disruption by imposing criteria on technological change that would have slowed it? Would our handling of capitalism have been smarter if we had predicted the forces we were releasing, even if our control of it had [...]

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Gandhi was right: “The only devils in the world are those running around in our hearts”. We cherish them, encourage them, feed them and then blame them for all the ills we suffer. In business, as in life, we create or condone these devils. We fail to see the ones that matter, devoting time to [...]

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Beyond work-life balance there are four other important areas in which we have been steadily creating less, rather than more, balance – education, communications, religion and sex.

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If you don’t do your job you cannot do it badly – but you can still fail.

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