Below is a collection of Dr. McGlaughlin’s most recent observations (500+). Most of these observations are made throughout the course of everyday life, captured by dictation, and added to FlintsNotes.com. You can read more about the observation capture process here. The content here changes 5 days a week, so be sure to check back often. Also, feel free to leave a comment in the comments section of each observation.

January 13, 2017

On Leadership and the Management of Energy

Leaders are masters of energy. They master their own, and they shape the energy of those around them. Leaders have an ability to cultivate and extend […]
January 12, 2017

On Self-heroic and Ordinary Moments

Be careful about judging a man by his self-heroic moments; you must judge him by is ordinary moments. Judge him by those things which to him […]
January 12, 2017

On How Structure Can Impose Confusion

As I seek to try and build a beautiful organization, I realize that structure is closely associated with one’s concept of beauty. Structure is foundational to […]
January 11, 2017

On the Inability to Achieve Precision

Because we are finite beings, we cannot experience precision. What we consider precise, is only an illusion. The beauty of math is that it allows us to […]
January 9, 2017

On Aggregating Activity

If you want it to rain you first have to fill the clouds with water. Sometimes activity produces an outcome, even when you can’t draw a […]
January 6, 2017

On Leadership and Self-deception

As a leader, our greatest danger is never the blatant crime that we commit, but rather the lie we tell ourselves first. Our greatest weakness is […]
January 5, 2017

On the Song that Writes You

My best music is constrained so that I only compose what I cannot say in prose. The subtleties of sound with no meaning but inexplicable symmetry, […]