Everything can be taken away from a person but one last thing; to choose one’s own attitude in any set of circumstances
– Viktor Frankl
Tag Archives: Values
There…
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must do it because our conscience tells us it is right
– Martin Luther King
Change…
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
– Victor Hugo
Values…
Values determine culture,
Culture determines behaviour,
Behaviour determines outcomes.
– Rohan Dredge
Overcoming…
Overcoming the blame tendency is a defining issue in the corporate world. Ben Dattner, a psychologist and organisational consultant, tells of an experience when he was working at the Republic National Bank of New York. He noticed a piece of paper that a co-worker had stapled to his cubicle wall. It read:
‘The six phases of a project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Rewards for the uninvolved’
Dattner writes: ‘I have yet to come across a more accurate description of how most dramas play out in our working lives.’
― Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes – But Some Do
Culture…
Culture is the sum of change that has gone before. The good and the bad; the accepted, the derided; the planned and the unintentional.
– Paradigms of Leadership
The way…
The way you sustain and improve upon a culture is by fostering a sense of gratitude for what is best about it. You celebrate the good in your story while putting the bad in the correct context.
– Jonah Goldberg
I never…
I never dreamed about success; I worked for it
– Estee Lauder
Organisations…
Organisations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources
.- Henry Mintzberg
Culture…
Culture evolves; it is the expression of our histories and the precursor to our futures – Anon
