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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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 embrace change before change erases you
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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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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
– Christopher McCandless
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
– Viktor Frankl
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future
– Walt Disney
Every successful organisation has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how people work together since the agricultural revolution
– Bill Drayton
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots
– Victor Hugo
An organisation’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage
– Jack Welch
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