"You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to."

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Source : Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons

Gary Hamel

#Inspirational Quotes #Change Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting”

Source : Larry Page’s Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, googlepress.blogspot.ru. May 2, 2009.
“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
“A library is a hospital for the mind.â€ - Anonymous”
“I feel itâ€™s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think itâ€™s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.”
“Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.”
“I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.”
“Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.”

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