If you’re doing something outside of dominant culture, there’s not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
– Ava Duvernay
Category Archives: Change
Overcoming…
Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organisational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:
‘The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved’
Dattner writes: ‘I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.’
― Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do
The…
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
– Nathaniel Branden
Leadership…
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
– Harold Geneen
We…
We have a culture where we are incredibly self critical, we don’t get comfortable with our success.
– Mark Parker
Culture…
Culture is the sum of change that has gone before. The good and the bad; the accepted, the derided; the planned and the unintentional.
– Paradigms of Leadership
Culture…
Culture is the expression of how we overcome adversity, how we make ourselves accountable
– Paradigms of Leadership
The way…
The way you sustain and improve upon a culture is by fostering a sense of gratitude for what is best about it. You celebrate the good in your story while putting the bad in the correct context.
– Jonah Goldberg
Learning…
Learning comes from solving hard problems, not attending classes.
– Scott Young
Organisations…
Organisations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources
.- Henry Mintzberg
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