"The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys."

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Source : John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.106, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

John Whitmore

#People Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Donkey Quotes

“How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?”
“There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.”
“The entire European Union is a left-wing dream”
“Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.”
“I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?”
“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”
“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”
“Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.”

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