Best 16 quotes in «change leadership quotes» category

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

Change can be your friend; complacency is always your enemy.

Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.