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Thursday, January 13, 2011
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A Working Testament
By Mr. Ingvar Kamprad
A job must never be just a meal ticket. Without enthusiasm for your work, one third of your life goes down the drain and can never be compensated for.
Development is not always equal to success. It depends on you, as leader and a responsible person, to make development progressive.
To design a desk which costs $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer. But to design a functional and good desk which costs $50 can be done only by the best. Expensive solutions to problems are often signs of mediocrity.
Bureaucracy complicates and paralyses. While there must be rules, the more difficult and complicated these are, the more difficult they will be to observe.
By refusing to accept a pattern just because it is established, one gets further, not only in big problems but also in small daily ones. A healthy appetite for experimenting will lead one forward all the time. “Why” remains an important word.
To make mistakes is the privilege of the active person – the one who is able to start from the beginning again and put things straight. The fear of making mistake is the root of bureaucracy and the enemy of all evolution. No decision can claim to be the only right one.
It is the drive behind the decision, which determines its correctness.
To win does not always imply that someone must lose. The most splendid victories are those where there are no losers.
The ambition to develop oneself as a human being and in one’s work must remain high.
The keyword is humbleness. Will and strength without humbleness often lead to conflict.
Time is your most important asset. Split your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few as possible to futilities.
Must things still remain to be done?
A job must never be just a meal ticket. Without enthusiasm for your work, one third of your life goes down the drain and can never be compensated for.
Development is not always equal to success. It depends on you, as leader and a responsible person, to make development progressive.
To design a desk which costs $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer. But to design a functional and good desk which costs $50 can be done only by the best. Expensive solutions to problems are often signs of mediocrity.
Bureaucracy complicates and paralyses. While there must be rules, the more difficult and complicated these are, the more difficult they will be to observe.
By refusing to accept a pattern just because it is established, one gets further, not only in big problems but also in small daily ones. A healthy appetite for experimenting will lead one forward all the time. “Why” remains an important word.
To make mistakes is the privilege of the active person – the one who is able to start from the beginning again and put things straight. The fear of making mistake is the root of bureaucracy and the enemy of all evolution. No decision can claim to be the only right one.
It is the drive behind the decision, which determines its correctness.
To win does not always imply that someone must lose. The most splendid victories are those where there are no losers.
The ambition to develop oneself as a human being and in one’s work must remain high.
The keyword is humbleness. Will and strength without humbleness often lead to conflict.
Time is your most important asset. Split your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few as possible to futilities.
Must things still remain to be done?
The Paradox of our Time
by the late George Carlin
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less senses; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and hollow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure,but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose to either share this insight, or to just hit delete.
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less senses; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less.
We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and hollow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure,but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose to either share this insight, or to just hit delete.
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