When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
– George Bernard Shaw
Category Archives: Leadership
Leadership is…
Leadership is not magnetic personality; that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”; that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
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Business…
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business – it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I believe…
I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organisation brings out the great energies and talents of its people
– Thomas J Watson
If…
If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding
– Andrea Jung
Successful careers…
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of working and their values
– Peter F Drucker
We have…
We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world
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You must…
You must embrace change before change erases you
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We must…
We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there
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As dealing…
As dealing with change becomes a regular activity, leading it becomes a skill to hone, an internal capacity to master.
– Arnaud Henneville
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