….the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose
– Thomas Krause
Author Archives: Paradigms of Leadership
I have never….
….met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him
– Galileo
Truly great….
…. leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it
– Alexander Lucia
The strength…
…. of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team
– Phil Jackson
Take a minute…
….. look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behaviour matches your goals
– Kenneth H. Blanchard
Doing easily….
…what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius
– Henri-Frederic Amiel
Some Say That Fear Has Two Meanings…
Forget Everything And Run….
or
Face Everything And Rise….
But I prefer Will Smith’s view in the film After Earth….
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
You can do…
…what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things
– Mother Teresa
If I Ran the Zoo ~ A Whimsical Look at Leadership
From February, 2012 ~ I had fun writing this, so I’m running it again in the hope that you will have fun reading or re-reading it.
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When my boys were little, one my favorite things to do was to read stories to them at bedtime. A well-loved story was Dr Seuss’ “If I Ran the Zoo”. Basically, it is about a little boy, Gerald McGrew, who decides that the animals he sees in the Zoo are too ordinary and he begins to imagine what it might be like if he ran the Zoo instead. I’m not sure what started me thinking about it but a whimsical mood has led me to creating my own version of “If I Ran the Zoo”. So, with apologies to Dr Seuss, here it is:
If I ran the zoo, I’d begin with the view,
That my organization includes
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Leaders are….
… visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds stacked against them
– Robert Jarvik
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