Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business – it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of working and their values
– Peter F Drucker
Acceptance of change is dependent upon the validity of both of the competence and intent of those leading
– Paradigms of Leadership
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots
– Victor Hugo
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
– Anne Frank
Organisational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root, create group distinctions which makes it easier to resist compromise and prevent collaboration
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Nobody can force change on anybody else. It has to be experienced. Unless we invent ways by which paradigm shifts can be experienced by large numbers of people then change will remain a myth
– Eric Trist
