There is something in the persistent question How? that expresses each person’s struggle between having confidence in their capacity to live a life of purpose and yielding to the daily demands of being practical. Continue reading
Leadership
20 Inspiring Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- “A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
- “Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
- “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.”
- “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
- “An ounce of patience is worth more than a tonne of preaching.”
- “Change yourself – you are in control.”
- “See the good in people and help them.”
- “Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.”
- “Take care of this moment.”
- “Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.”
- “Continue to grow and evolve.”
- “A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ uttered merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
- “Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.”
- “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
- “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
- “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Work-life balance, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer.
Life is always under construction
“…One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned in life is that success is neither the destination nor the journey, but a way of travelling. Destinations and journeys inevitably involve arrivals and endings. I have always felt the word retired, for example was misspelled. The word should be retried or maybe, reinspired. Continue reading
combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove
“…The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militants are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Continue reading
Life
Book Recommendation: Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
IN HER PIONEERING BESTSELLER
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Revised Edition)
Margaret Wheatley showed how the “New Science”—revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology that are overturning centuries-old images of the universe—provides powerful insights into the design, leadership, and management of organizations. Continue reading
Leadership is about tapping the energy to create something that matters deeply
The following simple definition of leadership has proved quite helpful in change projects over the years: the capacity of a human community—people living and working together—to bring forth new realities.
Another way to say this is that leadership energizes. Leadership breathes life into an enterprise, without which nothing truly new can emerge. The word inspire, long associated with leadership, derives from the Latin inspirare, literally “to breathe life into.” Continue reading
Let’s try and avoid death in small doses
“He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly. Continue reading
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