Sunday, June 21, 2009

Sound Bites

Extract from "Three Cups of Tea"

Mortenson says, 
"We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of 30-minute power lunches and 2-minute football drills Our leaders thought their 'shock and awe' campaign could end the war in Iraq before it even started.
Haji Ali taught me to share 3 cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them."

1 comment:

Heather said...

Hope you are enjoying it! Lots of good stuff in there, Heather