If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn’t be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
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Tag Archives: Integrity
If you are…
If you are entrusted with bringing about change, you will likely possess the knowledge needed to advance the organisation and you might have a plan — but knowledge is not enough. You have to bring yourself to each interaction in a deeply authentic way. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
– Doug Conant
Changes…
Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
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Managers…
Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phoney separation that people are making between the two.
– Henry Mintzberg
There has to be…
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage and the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile; especially when it is new and different.
– Alfred P. Sloan
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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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
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
Acceptance…
Acceptance of change is dependent upon the validity of both of the competence and intent of those leading
– Paradigms of Leadership
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