The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.


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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump...
DAN PINK
Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're t...
DAN PINK
To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create so...
DAN PINK
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showi...
DAN PINK
For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.
DAN PINK
I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of tryi...
DAN PINK
If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of...
DAN PINK
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive the...
DAN PINK
Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
DAN PINK
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten y...
PINK FLOYD
Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. An...
DANIEL H. PINK
Feast of the Holy Innocents Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not bor...
A. W. PINK
Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Nothing is too great and nothing...
A. W. PINK
Feast of All Saints From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still l...
A. W. PINK
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately...
DANIEL H. PINK
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with hi...
DANIEL H. PINK
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people wi...
DANIEL H. PINK
Feast of Michael & All Angels None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful wor...
ARTHUR W. PINK
...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di...
ARTHUR W. PINK
Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'...
DANIEL H. PINK
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive f...
DANIEL H. PINK
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empa...
DANIEL H. PINK
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways....
DANIEL H. PINK
In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you ...
DANIEL H. PINK
Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to t...
DANIEL H. PINK
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan...
DANIEL H. PINK
I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out ...
DANIEL H. PINK
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,...
DANIEL H. PINK
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, m...
DANIEL H. PINK
Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs ...
DANIEL H. PINK
Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employ...
DANIEL H. PINK