You need…

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

– Warren Bennis

You are…

You are educated.

Your certification is in your degree.

You may think of it as the ticket to the good life.

Let me ask you to think of an alternative.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

– Tom Brokaw

You…

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humour you can change your attitude about it.

– Allen Klein

If…

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it.

– Maya Angelou

You cannot…

You cannot build an adaptable organisation without adaptable people and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

– Gary Hamel

Leaders….

Leaders can help employees connect with and relate to people across organisational divides by doing four things:

  • developing and developing cultural brokers
  • encouraging employees to ask questions
  • helping people to see things through other peoples’ eyes
  • broadening everybody’s vision of internal & external expertise networks

– Tiziana Casciaro, Amy C.Edmondson & Sujin Jang (HBR May-June 2019)

So many…

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

One of…

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

– Jim Yong Kim

I’m not…

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

What is…

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

– Abraham Maslow