Invitations Quote by Mary C. Gentile

Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or of slavery…

— Mary C. Gentile

We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways…

— Mary C. Gentile

I am most comfortable in a "learner" role, I may raise my values-related concerns by asking the well-crafted and well-timed question, rather than by…

— Mary C. Gentile

Time pressures are a reality of business life that cannot be eliminated entirely and that even can create a beneficial focus at times, it…

— Mary C. Gentile

Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action plan, we…

— Mary C. Gentile

As for my interest in diversity, I believe it is closely aligned with my work on the project, Giving Voice To Values. That is,…

— Mary C. Gentile

The whole endeavor becomes less about a constraint on action and rather about helping us to be more of who we would actually like…

— Mary C. Gentile

In short, we needed to shift our thinking and teaching about values-driven leadership from asking the question "What is the right thing to do?"…

— Mary C. Gentile

Interestingly, many of the organizational characteristics that have been identified as conducive to effectively managing diversity and as conducive to fostering innovation and creativity…

— Mary C. Gentile

I have to think that we all have - at one time or another - felt that our own voice was silenced or under-valued.…

— Mary C. Gentile

I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive…

— Mary C. Gentile

Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or…

— Mary C. Gentile