If you take care of customers, writes Martin, shareholders will be drawn along for a very nice ride. The opposite is simply not true: if you try to take care of shareholders, customers don’t benefit and, ironically, shareholders don’t get very far either.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/

RIP Steve. 

goddamnyourebeautiful

Bill Gates talking state budgets and education. 

Seth Godin on leadership. 

The World is Obsessed with Facebook. 

How we think about the past, present and future affects everything around us. 

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.
Apple Think Differently Campaign 

An idea worth spreading. Taking control of work / life balance with incremental improvements.