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I heard this at a recent presentation at a business conference given by René Carayol. It made me sit up and think.
Taking Risks
The mind is a coward, for those who listen to it become utterly cowardly.
The mind is not an adventurer, it is very cautious.
It takes every step with thinking and calculation until it is certain there is no risk, until it has seen others taking the risk, until it has seen others taking the step and there has been no danger; hence listening to the mind is the most disturbing phenomenon of growth.
When everything is going well the mind comes in and says "watch out!". Because you listen to the mind's fears you stop living. The mind would keep you always the same, never taking risks. Newness is an enemy to the mind, sameness is its friend.
The Dilemma
- To laugh is to risk appearing a fool
- To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
- To reach out is to risk involvement
- To expose feelings is to risk rejection
- To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule
- To love is to risk not being loved in return
- To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is NOTHING.
You may avoid suffering and sorrow, but you cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by certitudes you are only a slave.
Only the person who risks is free.
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VERY TRUE!!! Thanks Nick.
Good for all of us to keep in mind while we live each day of our lives with so many decisions to make.
Or to put it a bit more simply .... Live a little. ::-)
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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The hardest ones for me are exposing my feelings and putting my dreams out where people can see them. I know loving someone is surely risky. I read these lines in a story I was reading not long ago:
"Love is opening yourself up to someone completely. Giving the tools and ammunition they need to hurt you......and trusting that they won't."
Laughing, crying, reaching out and moving forward come more naturally to us, I think.
{{{hugs}}} JJ
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Registered: January 1970
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This quote was in the paper yesterday:
"There are things that are known and things that are unknown; in between are doors"
Are these the doors that str8 people, religious people can't open? They aren't locked; just jammed from their side, I guess.
J
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Nick, thanks for sharing all that with us... It is incredibly true... what this lady said in the seminar. I am going to some formal sales training next week at our corporate headquarters, and fully intend to use personally, what you have said here. Oh, so true....
Thanks again for helping us all be better people with your sharing !!!!
BamBam
Celebrate your life... embrace your love... Become intimate with your place in forever !!!
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smith, that is exactly what is between the doors... and by the way, the glue that holds those doors shut tightly is fear... fear they will have to admt being wrong, fear of what could happen if "the freaks, fags, and weirdos of the world" were accepted and let loose to live as and be the wonderful people we really are inside... fear of living in a world of true harmony, where all are accepted... Hmmmm... something to really fear, huh????
BamBam
Celebrate your life... embrace your love... Become intimate with your place in forever !!!
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Hugs to you too Lenny. Hope things are going well for you.
The Dell monster is fantastic! I now watch TV only on the computer because it is better than the TV set. The speakers have to be kept turned right down though. One of the disadvantages of living in a flat.
Take care,
N
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In the same way that people need to take risks in order to grow, Carayol argues that businesses have to do the same.
Using the UK retail sector as an example, he split the business world into the risk-ready supermarket chain Tesco and the risk-averse Marks & Spencer. Under the stewardship of Terry Leahy, Tesco initiated a resurgence through a fixation on customers and has cut out around half of its legacy processes.
By contrast, Carayol argued that M&S plunged into steep decline through having a manual and a process for everything. He said: "Each layer of management existed to ensure that that the one below did everything by the book." It even had a dress code for the managers’ restaurant and instructions on how to hold a sherry glass!
When M&S was faced with increased competition, it could not cope because one of its main measures of success was length of service – it was staffed by people who only knew one way of doing things. Tesco, however, moved in the opposite direction – "from shit-pit to one of the best businesses in the country", as Carayol phrased it, by throwing out the rule book. He cited a sign at the Tesco head office as evidence of this – "Don’t think job, think customer".
I hope that the sales training goes well and maybe this gives some further food for thought. I am sure that there are equivalents of the Tesco and M&S cultures in the US (which type of organisation do you work for?).
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