Leaders create an environment …
“Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.”
– Elliot Jaques
“Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.”
– Elliot Jaques
“That ‘change makes us uncomfortable’ is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and underconsidered half-truths around…. it is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we ‘know’…
Effective Leadership is an outcome. It is an outcome of work. A special kind of work. It is an outcome of work on yourself. People who are perceived to be great leaders have some things in common. They behave in similar ways. If they behave in certain ways then we can assume that they think in…
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Our work is essential to our adjustment as human beings. We all need to be able to apply our full potential capability in our work in order to fully realize ourselves as individuals.” – Elliot Jaques
“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” Christopher Hitchens
“Change is upon us, and we can neither run nor hide. The only answer is to create new nimble businesses capable of adroitly responding to the chaotic conditions produced by constant change. It won’t be easy. Decades of deeply ingrained procedures, traditions, attitudes, and cultural biases about managing change must be jettisoned. In their place,…