Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. ~ Ramsay Clark
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. – John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. ~ Thomas Jefferson
“It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions. Change is situational – the new site, the new boss, the new role. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal.” – William Bridges
And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin
Leadership
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. ~ Ken Blanchard
Only three things happen naturally in organizations – friction, confusion and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. ~ Peter Drucker
The job of the leader is to be a “dispenser of enthusiasm.” ~ Benjamin Zander
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist “The Age of Uncertainty”
If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. ~ Admiral Grace Hopper
To lead people, walk beside them… As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate… But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’” ~ Lao Tzu
If leadership is an art, then leaders are the artists, organizations are the easel, people are the canvas, ideas are the pigment, values are the frame, and vision is the thing that’s hung up at the gallery–the final outcome that’s so magical it tempts the audience to forget the messy process by which the result is fashioned, and lures them into a state of awe. ~ Walter Stevenson
