All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it's not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company follows an avowedly Confucian model of consensus-driven decision-making, values bone-crushingly hard work, and shows tremendous deference to the founding Lee family, despite its lack of a controlling interest in its shares.
The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.
