If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for.
If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for.
If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
– Oscar Wilde
Tag Archives: Values
Leadership…
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day
– Jesse Jackson
There comes…
There comes a point where 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
– MLK
A true leader…
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
– Douglas MacArthur
Everything…
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
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
