Ana Verissimo

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

he…wser. I stared at the cursor. Eventually, I typed “nytimes.com” and hit enter. Like a freaking dad. The entire world of the internet, one that used to boast so many ways to waste time, and here I was, reading the news. It was even worse than working.

…businesses, at different stages of their lifecycles require us to be students of different schools. There’s no blueprint or off-the-shelf one-size-fits all model (phew: if it were that simple, we’d all be out of a job): figuring out which strategic approach to take depends both on reaching a crystal-clear understanding of the problem at hand, and a deep appreciation of the kind of people and organisation that we’re solving it for.