Tag Archives: Learning

Leaders are…

… more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach

-Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Earn the right….

…. to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

– John C Maxwell

Train people….

…well enough that they can leave, treat them well enough that they don’t want to

– Sir Richard Branson

Learning how….

to deal with the possibility of failure is really good preparation for a career in the business world

– Malcolm Gladwell

The organisation….

…. of insect societies is a marquee example of a complex decentralized system that arises from the interactions of many individuals

– Stephen Pratt

Biologist, Arizona State Uni

This quote is an extract from a blog by David Kanigan – the full article is available at https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140409-the-remarkable-self-organization-of-ants/

Great men…

are not born great, they grow great . . .

― Mario Puzo

How do you…

… make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too

– Siobhan Davies

Leaders are…

…… more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach

– Rosabeth Moss Kantor

True leaders…

… are the first to admit that they don’t know everything and that they need help

– Bill Byrd,

Coaching is…

… unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them

– John Whitmore