Tim's Library

Successful organizations are more about hard work and effectively deploying people than they are about great ideas.  Great ideas must be balanced by great work ethic, leadership and a balanced approach to people. More...

Great organizations are built on fundamentally solid foundations – otherwise known as “great bones”. More...

By John C. Bogle from The Wall Street Journal - April 20th 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124027114694536997.html

Editor's Note: This article was referred to me by my friend Stewart Kohl and is essential reading if you are trying to figure out the financial crisis that we are in. The point of the article is that the primary factor causing our malaise is that those entrusted with our money have put their own interest above those whose money they are responsible for. Sounds too simple, but in my experience it is broadly very true. More...

June Song: Closer to Fine
Artist: Indigo Girls More...

Editor's Note: This might be my favorite success story so far because it is so simple - started by a guy making $33,000 a year and is still a modest and fundamentally sound "business of good." My son reminds me from time to time of the old "starfish" story most of us have heard. (Man tells boy who is throwing starfish stranded on beach that there are millions of starfish beached and he can't hope to help them all survive. To which boy says as he tosses one back into the sea, "Yes, but I'm helping this one".) Keith Taylor is an inspiration to me because he concentrates on only what he CAN do... that one starfish he's throwing back in the sea. More...

Full Catastrophe Living:
Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
by Jon Kabat-Zinn More...

An excerpt from "Suffering is Optional" by Byron Katie More...