I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
– Warren Bennis
Category Archives: Creativity
Self-security will be….
Self-security will be a hallmark of the leaders and exceptional organisations of the future. Self-security in an individual or a system brings a high ratio of coherence. Leaders or organisations with self-security can push power and authority downstream and develop centers of innovation and excellence at all levels of the organization
– Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
If….
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it
– Albert Einstein
Learn…
Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.
– John Heider
To think…
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted
– George Knelle
The Road Not Taken…
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The true mark…
The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.
– William Taylor
Sometimes….
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only when…
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision…That is the sort of time we live in now. We…live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.
– Barbara Ward
The word…
The word ‘reactive’ and the word ‘creative’ are made up of exactly the same letters; the only difference between the two is that you ‘c’ (see) differently.
– John C Maxwell
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