Morning Briefings

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

– Lou Holtz (NCAA football and NFL head coach)

Doing what’s right is hard, and speaking the truth is dangerous. Many have been abhorred for it, some killed, one crucified.

– Andrew Klavan
The Wall Street Journal

Man’s accidents are God’s purposes, 1843: No one knows what prompted Sophia Hawthorne to engrave this phrase on the window. Some scholars suggest it may refer to a miscarriage she had in that year after slipping on a patch of ice. There is a sense of grief and resignation about her words, but also of strength and resolution. No easy answer is asked for or given, just a blunt acceptance of events and a determination to either endure or overcome them.

– from James Geary’s
The World in a Phrase

If everything is important, then nothing is. No one understands the power of this saying more than a person who leads an organization. Every organization provides its leaders with more distractions and concerns than one person can handle.

– Patrick Lencioni
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive

Aloha Airlines Halting Passenger Service: Aloha, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 20, was a casualty of fierce competition and rising fuel prices. The airline said it will halt all passenger service after Monday, signaling the end of an airline that has served Hawaii for more than 60 years.

– Audrey McAvoy, AP, as reported on
Yahoo! Finance

Come to me all you who are burdened and I will give you rest.

– Matthew 11:28

Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

– Hugh MacLeod
How to be Creative