Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organisation is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.
– Frances Hesselbein
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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We would…
We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
– W. H. Auden
The truth…
The truth is that digital transformation is actually not about adapting to new technology at all; it’s about directing an organisation to be more adaptive to change itself.
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Who…
Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? They are almost always a pragmatic dreamers. They are people who get things done and they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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The most difficult…
The most difficult step is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Your fears are paper tigers; you can do anything you decide to do
– Amelia Earhart
When…
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
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
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