"Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to "define" the goal carefully upfront, you've addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process."

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Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

David Livermore

#Team Quotes #Goal Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.”
“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”

Source : "Stately as a Galleon". Book by Joyce Grenfell, 1978.
“Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.”
“Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”
“I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.”
“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
“I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.”
“The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.”

Source : Interview with Rahasya Poe, lotusguide.com. September 1, 2010.

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