One of the keys to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.
– Robert Quinn
Tag Archives: Values
If you are…
If you are entrusted with bringing about change, you will likely possess the knowledge needed to advance the organisation and you might have a plan — but knowledge is not enough. You have to bring yourself to each interaction in a deeply authentic way. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
– Doug Conant
Changes…
Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
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Throughout…
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organisations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
There has to be…
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage and the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile; especially when it is new and different.
– Alfred P. Sloan
Culture…
Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organisation is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.
– Frances Hesselbein
The truth…
The truth is that digital transformation is actually not about adapting to new technology at all; it’s about directing an organisation to be more adaptive to change itself.
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Leadership is…
Leadership is not magnetic personality; that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”; that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
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Business…
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…
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
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