Tag Archives: Understanding

Everyone…

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t

– Bill Nye

The planning…

The planning fallacy is common inside and outside of the business at both strategic and operational management level.

– Pearl Zhu,

Because…

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

– Shunryu Suzuki

Some…

Some of the most beautiful things we have in life come from our mistakes.

– Surgeo Bell

You cannot…

You cannot build an adaptable organisation without adaptable people and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

– Gary Hamel

Leaders….

Leaders can help employees connect with and relate to people across organisational divides by doing four things:

  • developing and developing cultural brokers
  • encouraging employees to ask questions
  • helping people to see things through other peoples’ eyes
  • broadening everybody’s vision of internal & external expertise networks

– Tiziana Casciaro, Amy C.Edmondson & Sujin Jang (HBR May-June 2019)

Trying…

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
– Peter F Drucker

Every day…

Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be.

– Sean Higgins

The greatest danger…

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

– Peter Drucker

Knowledge…

Knowledge is no substitute for understanding.

– Anon