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“It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that make our hearts sing.” Steve Jobs

College education is another layer of ignorance, but what is worse, combined with arrogance.

“Sometimes, without realizing it, we use our most treasured values as an excuse to avoid the discomfort of actually leading.”

“Powerful, often invisible behavioral, social and cultural forces can cause leaders to espouse the infallible importance of unexamined virtues.”

“Some say good enough is for wimps, losers and cop-outs. But we set a trap for ourselves when we expect excellence in everything.”

“When leaders tolerate more playful experimentationon the path to a destination defined by excellence,they increase the chances that people will stay engaged and produce truly distinguished work.”

“Prioritizing team goals over individual goals means that when one person slacks off, someone else has to do additional work in order to prop up the low performer.”

“There is no greater danger to productivity than the standing committee meeting – a team for the sake of a team, a meeting for the sake of a meeting.”

“Leaders should collaborate only when they must.”

“How you construct meaning is the single most important act of leadership that you can make.”

“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question.”

From Tipping Sacred Cows by Jack Breeden

A teacher telling her students: “only God is perfect” is a breach of the principle, policy, and law of separation between Church and State.

Dear Dearborn Business person: The next time you are opening something in Dearborn, which is the highest concentration of Arab Speakers outside the Arabic world , here are some ideas other than a Barbershop, pharmacy, butcher, or grocery store:

1. Arabic themed cafe
2. Heritage desert life themed restaurant
3. Arabic music institute
4. Yoga place
5. Pottery place
6. Children cooking themed place
7. Arabic bookstore cafe
8. Egyptian cuisine restaurant
9. Moroccan cuisine restaurant
10. Bake your own Mankooshy place
11. Vegetarian only middle eastern cuisine restaurant
12. Fooul specialty place
13. Real Falafil specialty place
14. Arabic calligraphy institute
15. Arabic antique used and new shop
16. Painting with a Twist but arabic themed paintings
Etc…

Add other suggestions for them below.

Franchise is synonymous with unauthentic … disgenuine … unoriginal. Quality preservation and franchising are opposites.

In 2016, franchises are seen as viruses that attack communities. People are looking for original family-heritage based, entrepreneur owned authentic businesses, with people who care, and build relationships, and are organic to the community.

Having 8+ Tim Hortons and 4+ Starbuckses and more to come, in Dearborn and 0 community cafes is a testimony to the cultural and intellectual bankruptcy of this city.