A promising junior executive of IBM was involved in a risky venture for the company and managed to lose over $10 million in the gamble. It was a disaster. When Watson called the nervous executive into his office, the young man blurted out, ‘I guess you want my resignation?’ Watson said, ‘You can’t be serious. We’ve just spent $10 million educating you!
– Warren Bennis
Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realise that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge
– Eckhart Tolle
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near
– Jack Welch
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
– Jack Dixon
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
– Winston S Churchill
Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
– John Maxwell
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
– Oswald Sanders
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas and fitting in instead of standing out.
– Warren G. Bennis
When an employee truly understands the meaning of his work and gets recognition for his efforts he performs the best.
– Abishek Ratna
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