Status quo Quote by Adam M. Grant Download Open image ““that if you don’t take initiative, the status quo will persist.”” — Adam M. Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Status quo
“It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In navigating change, some of us take temporary actions and expect to obtain permanent results.” — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
“There is never a status-quo: If you are not sure something is not getting better, you can be sure that it is getting worse.” — Vijay Shankar Sharma Copy Share Image
“Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises on its own?” — Michele Campbell Copy Share Image
“the higher the psychological safety in a unit, the fewer errors they made. Why? In the units that lacked psychological safety, health care professionals hid their errors, fearing retribution. As a result, they weren’t able to learn from their mistakes. In the units with high psychological safety, on the other hand, reporting errors made it possible to prevent them moving… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share
“And in the long run, research shows that the mistakes we regret are not errors of commission, but errors of omission. If we could… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Although many successful givers start from the default of trusting others’ intentions, they’re also careful to scan their environments to screen for potential takers, always ready to shift from feeling a taker’s emotions to analyzing a taker’s thoughts, and flex from giving unconditionally to a more measured approach of generous tit for tat. And when they feel inclined to back… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across cultures, there’s a rich body of evidence showing that… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Setting high expectations is so important,” Skender says. “You have to push people, make them stretch and do more than they think possible.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“analysts were more likely to maintain their star performance if they worked with high-quality colleagues in their teams and departments. The star analysts relied… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Speak softly, but carry a big stick. —Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“When our audiences are skeptical, the more we try to dominate them, the more they resist. Even with a receptive audience, dominance is a… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As Simon Sinek writes, “Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back.” Armed with this knowledge, I’ve seen some people become more strategic matchers, helping others in the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share
“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, the winners will be those who stay ahead of the change curve, constantly redefining their industries, creating new markets, blazing new trails, reinventing the competitive rules, challenging the status quo. To use Charles Handy’s words, it will be those who ‘invent the world’, not those who respond to it. Of course, it requires far less effort… — Rowan Gibson Copy Share
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic that none of my members in the end want to be responsible for the status quo on Obamacare. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
“The purpose of all of this (left hemisphere's way of choosing denial or repression over considering an anomaly) is to impose stability on behavior… — V.S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
