Quote | Author | Source | public | Tags |
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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. | Dee Hock | https://www.mycompanyworks.com/business-quote-of-the-week-12/ |  PurposeSimplicityBehaviors | |
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. | Peter Drucker | Leadership | ||
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. | Rainer Maria Rilke | Letter to a young poet | Innovation | |
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn | Alvin Toffler | Future Shock | LearningPersonality | |
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. | Albert Einstein | CuriositySkills | ||
If I myself cannot change, how can I expect others to change? | Nelson Mandela | LeadershipChange | ||
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. | Henry Ford | LeadershipChange | ||
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. | Albert Einstein | Simplicity | ||
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. | Peter Drucker | Learning | ||
You manage things; you lead people. | Admiral Grace Hopper | LeadershipManagement | ||
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. | Steve Jobs | PassionWork | ||
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is the way they become. | Goethe | Diversity | ||
To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail. | Ed Catmull | Creativity Inc. | Creativity | |
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. | Peter Drucker | LearningFuture of Work | ||
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. | William Arthur Ward | Learning | ||
The only thing that is constant Is change | Heraclitus of Ephesus | Change | ||
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. | Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince (1532) | Change | |
Traveller, there is no path. Paths are made by walking. | Antonio Machado | LeadershipChange | ||
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | Alan Kay | LeadershipChange | ||
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. | Kurt Lewin | Change | ||
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. | Kurt Lewin | Learning | ||
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night | Edgar Allan Poe | Creativity | ||
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. | John P. Kotter | Leadership | ||
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. | Peter Drucker | Management | ||
We have an unshakeable belief in people and their will and ability to do good things well. | Handelsbanken Our Way booklet | Purpose | ||
Organizations, like individuals, can avoid identity crises by deciding what it is they wish to be and then pursuing it with a healthy obsession. | Henry Mintzberg | Organization Design: Fashion or Fit?, Harvard Business Review, January 1981 | Organization Design | |
It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future | Danish Proverb | Change | ||
Turning a bad culture into a good culture is like teaching a herd of elephants to dance. | Louis Gerstner | CultureCulture Change | ||
“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” | Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises | Change | |
All models are wrong, but some are useful. | George Box | ModelsInnovation | ||
Management is about using others for your success; leadership is about stewarding the lives entrusted to you. | Bob Chapman | <a href="https://marker.medium.com/companies-dont-need-to-lay-people-off-to-survive-4197a9e57f6c">Medium</a> | LeadershipManagement | |
Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. | Milton Friedman | Capitalism and Freedom, 1982, page XIV | Change | |
Your greatest fear as a CEO is that people aren't telling you the truth. | Mark Costa | Psychological SafetyLeadership | ||
Doubt is the origin of wisdom. | René Descartes | Wisdom | ||
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Creativity | ||
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. | Frank Zappa | InnovationDiversity | ||
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. | William Butler Yeats | WisdomInnovation | ||
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic | John F. Kennedy | Trust |
