If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
– Unknown
Tag Archives: self awareness
Sooner…
Sooner or later every leader begins to understand how little power he or she really has…as organisations become more complex and the environment more intense it becomes impossible to get things done through force of leadership.
– Robert E Quinn, The Positive Organisation
Everyone…
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t
– Bill Nye
The…
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
– Nathaniel Branden
When…
When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change nor brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.
– Robert E. Quinn
Because…
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
– Shunryu Suzuki
Our…
Our ability to learn never quite matches our need to learn
– Unknown
Even those…
Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.
– Louis L’Amour
After…
After living with their dysfunctional behaviour for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
– Marshall Goldsmith
Whosoever…
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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