Charles Handy Quotes

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• Talent comes with an individual name tag.
• The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
• The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or…
• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
• A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.
• Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
• Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but…
• Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child
• Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove…
• We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small…
• I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and…
• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard…
• The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
• Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
• In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
• Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying,…
• There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
• Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.
• The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said,…

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