Fréquenter des gens ouverts d'esprit, optimistes, positifs, peut être contagieux. 

Vous pourriez avoir de sortir du rang et de les suivre. 

Theory vs Practice

 

Data is like garbage.

You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

(Mark Twain)

... il va falloir expliquer cela à nos amis du Marketing... 

Ce n'est pas du tout la tendance du moment avec le bigdata (qui fait suite au datamining)

 

 

Change is inevitable

- except from a vending machine.

(Robert Gallagher)

 

 

The P in PM is as much about 'people management'

as it is about 'project management'.

(Cornelius Fichtner)

 

 

 

C'est moi seul qui déclenche !

(in Asterix, le papyrus de César)

Risk visions

- Corporate : We shouldn't do anything new! Too dangerous !

- Startup : We shouldn't do anything old! Too dangerous !

Bear @ bar

Chicago Millennium Park

Inspired by the Button Tower of the cathedral at Rouen, France, 

the Tribune Tower 

exemplifies the way American architects have elevated office buildings to sacred status.

 Newspaper publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick held a $50,000.00 international competition to design, "the most beautiful and eye-catching office building in the world." In some estimations, it succeeded. The tower has all of the traditional elements of a skyscraper plus heritage expressed in flying buttresses, spires, grotesques, and more. The base of the Tribune Tower contains 120 stones from important locations all around the world, including the Parthenon, in Greece; the pyramids, in Egypt; the Taj Mahal, in India; the Alamo, in San Antonio; the Great Wall of China; and Injun Joe Cave in Missouri.

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, fondateur de Chicago (et natif d'Haïti)

Passage impossible. Pont levant à Chicago.  Quelques minutes d'attente. 

With a little help of my friends...

If there is no way, create one. 

10 to Zen

1.Let go of comparing
2.Let go of competing
3.Let go of judgments
4.Let go of anger
5.Let go of regrets
6.Let go of worrying
7.Let go of blase
8.Let go of guilt
9.Let go of fear.
10.Have a proper belly laugh at least once a day (especially if it's  about your inability to let go of any or all of the above)

The Washington Monument was disintegrating - Why ? 

Why? Use of harsh chemicals
Why? To clean pigeon poop
Why so many pigeons? They eat spiders and there are a lot of spiders at monument
Why so many spiders? They eat gnats and lots of gnats at monument
Why so many gnats? They are attracted to the light at dusk.


Solution: Turn on the lights at a later time.

Once you've accepted your flaws 

no one can use them against you.

Hello  - Adele vs Lionel Richie

Live from Chicago

Any chance to see the Obama ? 

Le président des USA en visite à Chicago pour notamment une intervention à la conférence IACP (je croise de nombreux participants à cette conférence dans mon hôtel de Chicago ...). 

A suivre :)