The ‘Art of Dreaming’ is the power to remember the future. A mental watershed, a wide divergence in attitudes and vision, separates men into two species: on one side, the mass of ordinary men, who need to see in order to believe; and on the other side, a handful of men, few among the few, who have the capacity to believe before seeing. These men have the power to remember the future. They sustain the
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The Turkish family business face a deadly challenge at the turning point of the generation change. 70% of them will disappear, swallowed by the turbolent waters of the global business. To transfer to the next generation the material company: buildings, people and machinery, is not enough. We have to transfer the entrepreneurial dream that gave birth to it. There is a legend from the ancient times about two terrible giants, Scilla and Cariddi, guarding the
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The universities of the future will do what today’s universities do not do: teach youth of self-discovery, self-knowledge, the Art of Dreaming, to aim higher, to elevate their being, and to become masters of their own lives.  There’s nothing more important. I was in London at the Times-sponsored conference organized by Goodenough College and the Institute of Ideas, where the highest calibre of specialists from political, financial, and academic communities around the world, after three
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For a corporation, as for a country, the decisive difference between winning and losing, between progressing and decaying, between being free and being enslaved, between staying alive and disappearing, is always made by one man with a dream and a sense of greatness – a true Leader.   The global economy stands out against the backdrop of an immense battlefield where every day, entire nations, and companies as large as huge regiments, confront each other
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The invitation addressed to me from Tempo to dedicate a monthly article to the Turkish readers has been immediately accepted with enthusiasm as an opportunity to express my love for this Country and share some thoughts about how to lead Turkey to a greater and prosperous future. For this purpose I cannot rely upon my background as an economist and a sociologist, that would prove largely insufficient. For such a task I have to fetch
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