Quotes

Quote	Author	Source	Tags
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/	Purpose Simplicity Behaviors
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	Learning Personality
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.	Albert Einstein		Curiosity Skills
If I myself cannot change, how can I expect others to change?	Nelson Mandela		Leadership Change
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.	Henry Ford		Leadership Change
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		Leadership Management
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		Passion Work
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		Learning Future 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		Leadership Change
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.	Alan Kay		Leadership Change
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		Culture Culture 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		Models Innovation
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>	Leadership Management
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 Safety Leadership
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		Innovation Diversity
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.	William Butler Yeats		Wisdom Innovation
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