Hello all. Just to make you smile and think on a Friday afternoon I thought that I would share with you some of my favourite quotes. There are messages within these that I try to use every day as a person, manager and leader. I hope you enjoy them.
- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe. Abraham Lincoln
- Everybody wants to talk, few want to think, and nobody wants to listen. Anonymous
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
- Madness is valid reasoning from flawed assumptions. John Locke
- The role of the leader is to inspire, enable and support - and then ensure they don't get in the way. Prateous
- In order to win, there should be no fear of losing. Anonymous
- Fortune favours the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
- There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas McArthur
- All good things that exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill
- Surround yourself with good people, even if they are better than you. David Pretty (my team are certainly better than me!)
- It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
- Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people need to be led. Ross Perot
- In times of rapid change, experience is your worst enemy. John Paul Getty
- Many organisations disregard the facts and act instead on belief, ideology and casual benchmarking. Jeffrey Pfeffer
- We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein
- Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker
Talk again in a week or so.
Carlton
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