27 June 2015

• Reticulated: Resembling, covered with, or having a form of a net.
• It is not a very hard thing to go off into the wilderness and kill an elephant, or white rhino, or a reticulated giraffe, or giant eland; but it is a very hard thing to get good photographs of them, and still a harder thing to cure and transport the skins and skulls of a number of such specimen. (Theodore Roosevelt) 
• Distill: To extract the essential elements of; refine; abstract
• Where does intelligence-much less wisdom-really begin? Let me distill the heart of the question: what's the difference between dumb and stupid? (Umair Haque) 
• Siphon off: To embezzle or steal something a little at a time.
• He warns, however, that London needs to realize, that Europe is " not about profiting from the free circulation of goods of your neighbors while siphoning off their fiscal base." (Thomas Piketty in FT) 
•  Stand-in: Any substitute
• Self-improvement after all can serve as a stand-in for salvation. (Ainsley O' Connell) 
• Vitality: Exuberant physical strength or mental vigor
• Roosevelt on safari burned with exuberant vitality.  (Mark Jenkins) 
• My life's work is to make the link between the way you pay attention and your vitality more obvious. (Ellen Langer- Interview Business + Strategy)
• Flail: Flounder; struggle uselessly
• Most executive know that how they respond to the challenge of sustainability will profoundly affect the competitiveness-and perhaps even the survival-of their organizations. Yet, most are flailing around, launching a hodgepodge of initiatives without overarching vision or plan. (David A. Lubin & Daniel C. Etsy)