Category Archives: Change

I start…

… each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.

– Peter Daisyme

Conformity…

… is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

– John F. Kennedy

A fresh….

… critical look is being taken at the issues of power and authority, and people are beginning to learn, however haltingly, to relate to one another in less coercive and more creatively supporting ways. A new moral principle is emerging, which holds that the only authority deserving of one’s allegiance is that which is freely and knowingly granted by the led to the leader in response to, and in proportion to, the clearly evident servant stature of the leader. Those who choose to follow this principle will not casually accept the authority of existing institutions. Rather, they will freely respond only to individuals who are chosen as leaders because they are proven and trusted as servants. To the extent that this principle prevails in the future, the only truly viable institutions will be those that are predominantly servant led.

– Robert Greenleaf

Life…

… can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

– Steve Jobs

Someone’s…

… sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

– Warren Buffett

Leaders are…

… creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organisation, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.

– John Baldoni

 

Without leaps…

… of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

– Gloria Steinem

A new leader…

… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call

– Warren Bennis

 

People will…

… forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

– Maya Angelou

Consensus:

…. The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’

– Margaret Thatcher