If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Tag Archives: Success
Who succeeds…
Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
– Warren G Bennis
All organisations…
All organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting.
If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
– Tom Northup
Whether…
Whether there are innately female leadership styles… is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
– Charlotte Bunch
I have…
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
– Leonardo da Vinci
I used to…
I used to think that running an organisation was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
– Warren G. Bennis
When…
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford
Excellence is….
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis
A great person…
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Choice…
Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
– W.H. Auden
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