Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light” – Albert Schweitzer Sparkle bright as you drive change. There are those around you flickering. Be the example and transform them into a flame too. We all can […]
Quote of the Week
Sometimes
An idea is not true merely because it occurs to us or because we wish it to be true; sometimes we are wrong.” – David Harriman, The Logical Leap Admit what you know. Admit what you don’t know. Be ready for someone to bring you something you’ve never thought of. That’s okay. As one of
They can’t be forced
Just in case you thought I was making all this “driving change” stuff up, check out this quote from Dale Carnegie’s 1936 hit, How to Win Friends and Influence People, If a man’s heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can’t win him to your way of thinking with all the
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Good humor
I found this tonight in my grandmother’s old church cookbook, a possession I treasure in so many ways: Good humor makes all things tolerable.” Life happens. How you respond to life makes all the difference. Laugh a little. It’ll help.
Head in that direction
You will never get to where you want to be unless you head in that direction.” – Unknown Typically, when people are implementing change they feel confident about the destination they’ve chosen, but they seem quite awful at heading in that direction. My observation is that they struggle with heading in that direction because they’ve
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Success from failure
Thanks to Danny for sending this one my way: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill Find your passion. Set your destination. Drive change. Each failure, each obstacle and each frustration builds within you the strength you’ll need to reach that destination you seek. Don’t ever lose
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Very frustrated
I’m very frustrated right now…” – Theodore R. Mills, age 3 This past week, my three-year-old son has been using this phrase over and over again. You see, he’s at that age where what he want to accomplish outstrips his ability to accomplish it. He can’t get what or where he wants at his pace,
Seeking productive people
Administrators derive status from their organization and tend to identify themselves with it so that criticism of the organization is felt by them to be criticism of the administrator himself. Productive people owe whatever distinction they may have to their own competence and are usually more open-minded about improving their performance.” – H. G. Rickover,
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Stay curious
Samuel Johnson said, Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.” There a studies that say you should do puzzles to keep your mind sharp, while other studies say wine is the answer. Puzzles and wine might help, but I happen to believe that Dr. Johnson was on to something
No sheep here
If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” – James Collins and Jerry Porras, citing a 3M phrase My thanks to Kenneth Thomas for citing this quote in his book, Intrinsic Motivation at Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement. Too often in our fervor to make our expectations
