Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 44 "Trust, engagement, and happiness are outcomes. If you treat them like your inputs, you'll never get them." ― Leandro Herrero   A quote from Herrero's book " The Flipping Point " cited here . " There is a lot of confusion around inputs and outputs in Culture Change. Many organizations agree on broad values and directions for their culture and put things like "Trust, Engagement, and Happiness" in their value statements. But this is the output, the result. The input are behaviours. "

Quote of the Week 43 " Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you. " ―  Timothy Snyder   As stated in his recent blog article " How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end ".

Quote of the Week 42 " Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. " ― Frank Zappa   Triggered by the use of the quote in a discussion of "normality" in the WDR 5 "Philosophical Radio" podcast .

Quote of the Week 41 " I quote others only in order the better to express myself. " ―  Michel de Montaigne Triggered by the discussion of Montaigne's Essais in a WDR 5 podcast . A variant of the original French quote : "Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire." "I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."

2nd Quote of the Week 40 " Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. " ―  Steve Jobs (who passed away 11 years ago today)

  Quote of the Week 40 " Gratitude is letting the power of knowing what you have, overpower thinking about what you don't. " ―  John Maeda