"Your behavior reflects your actual purposes."

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Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.219, Harvard Business Press

Ronald A. Heifetz

#Purpose Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
“Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.”
“In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.”
“I'm not going to be like, "I gotta get this idea out of my head." It's like, "OK, here's a clean slate, and I've got all these paints, and all these brushes, and this is what I'm going to do with it." It reveals itself, and you take a step back and say, "What's happening here? Where are we going? What does this mean? Do I need to break it open? Does it need to just be what it is? Should it end now?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.”
“I wish I was CEO of 4chan instead”
“It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to be a radical, not a conservative. I no longer cared to play that game ... The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds - social, economic, even ethnic - yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but that did not mean we had to think alike”

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