Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
–
Tag Archives: Leadership
In timers…
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
– J Paul Getty
Great leadership…
Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralise the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
– John Kotter
Throughout…
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organisations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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
If we…
If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
– Alfred P. Sloan
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
We think…
We think that we listen, but rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change.
– Carl Rogers
Culture…
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.
–
Leadership Licks 