Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
– Ban Ki-moon
Change is inevitable; acceptance is not
– Anon
The nature and structure of belief systems is important because beliefs provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude it is necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person’s beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs.
– Richard Petty and John Cacioppo
Your comfort zone is best thought of as an expression of your constraints
– Paradigms of Leadership
It is most perilous to be a speaker of Truth. Sometimes one must choose to be silent, or be silenced. But if a truth cannot be spoken, it must at least be known. Even if you dare not speak truth to others, never lie to yourself.
– Francis Hardinge
(From Insight by Dr Tasha Eurich)
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
– Immanuel Kant
You can be appointed manager but you are not a leader until your appointment has been ratified in the hearts and minds of the people
– John Adair
Futurism is the art of re-perception. Life will change, must change, has changed and suggests how and why. It shows that old paradigms have lost their validity whilst new ones are possible.
– Bruce Sterling
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes; it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in today, change is the norm.
– Peter F. Drucker (from 1999)
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