Strategy and Tactics

Author: tracysigler | Posted: April 21st, 2011 | | Tags: | No Comments »

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – Sun Tzu quotes (Chinese General and Author, b.500 BC)


Gustave Flaubert on Creativity

Author: tracysigler | Posted: March 21st, 2011 | | Tags: | No Comments »

“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” -Gustave Flaubert, novelist (1821-1880)


Rolf Potts on Improvising

Author: tracysigler | Posted: March 15th, 2011 | | Tags: , | No Comments »

“The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.” – Rolf Potts


Make the Right Mistakes

Author: tracysigler | Posted: January 16th, 2011 | | Tags: , | No Comments »

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince


Learning by Doing

Author: tracysigler | Posted: December 18th, 2010 | | Tags: | No Comments »

“It’s one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.” – Telamon of Arcadia


Rethinking Beliefs and Habits

Author: tracysigler | Posted: November 15th, 2010 | | Tags: , | No Comments »

“Confronting, challenging, and rethinking long-held beliefs and habits is provocative and often profitable but rarely comfortable or enjoyable.” – Dan Kennedy