We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

THE LAW OF SACRIFICE - To go up you have to give up

We are He, since we are His body and since He was made man in order to be our Head.

Organizations must design teams intentionally by asking these questions: Given our skills, constraints, cultural and engineering maturity, desired software architecture, and business goals, which team topology will help us deliver results faster and safer? Where should the boundaries be in the software system in order to preserve system viability and encourage rapid flow?

Even if you do everything right, other investors can ignore your favorite stock; management can squander the company’s opportunities; government can change the rules; or nature can serve up a catastrophe.

The right sort of practice carried out over a sufficient period of time leads to improvement. Nothing else.

Defensive management. It happens when a manager feels insecure and cannot protect himself from his team’s incompetence. But the problem is, the defensive tactics only makes things worse: once you’ve started leading a group, the best you can do is to trust them. People will make mistakes, but this is normal, so let them do it.

Confusion is a totally legitimate phase of working things out. We may need a period of ambiguity, uncertainty, or lack of clarity before we can see what is going on.

If you stop to look back, to become interested in your irritation towards them, what you might find is that your own inner four-year-old is jealous or feels competitive.

The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified.