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.
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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.
Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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.
I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Football players value job security and stability as much anybody else.
