Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/13/12
August 13, 2012—Issue #151
This week’s focus point: I’m sitting in a beach house on Nantucket Island at 7:30 on a stormy Sunday morning, watching angry waves pound a stoic beach. Avian air traffic control has grounded the gulls. There is a magnificent peace here. Earlier in the week we celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary, and realized that, through sheer accident, we’ve never spent a vacation with two weeks in a single place, as we are here. It’s educational to watch the fury of the storm from this safe perspective, because the storm will end and we’ll get on with our vacation. The same with our lives. If we’re confident and have a support system, we can better weather the hurricanes of life that often threaten to engulf us. We need to lead our own lives, not be caught up in the winds and rains of shouting, fads, pressures, and demands. Those, too, shall pass and we can get on with our lives. My wife and I have been doing that for over 44 years. Any port in a storm, but once it passes, find your true destination.
Monday Morning Perspective: Disciplines, departments, professors, and their subject matters are grooves in which our minds get stuck. They relieve us of the need to steer our minds, but they also deprive us of the ability to control their destinies. — Professor and author Russell L. Ackoff
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