“… there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismarck. Lenin .” [ Ender’s Game , Orson Scott Card] The most repeated refrain at my workplace now is “ change .” The focus is always on change from within . We’ve had a number of “workshops” on the theme. A lot of Stephen Covey has been shoved down the throats of the participants. The latest “workshop” ended a couple of hours back. The participants were enlightened on the 90 / 10 principle of Covey, according to which we cannot change 10 percent of the reality because that is not under our control, but we can change the remaining 90 percent because that is related to our response to the reality. For example, if my little daughter topples the coffee cup on to my shirt during breakfast, I can choose to let out my ire first on my daughter, then on my wife for being careless about where she placed the cup, then on my car f
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