Tag: Better Future

Before You Act

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Treating an uncertain world as if it were predictable only gets you into trouble.’

‘If you can’t predict the future- and increasingly you can’t- action trumps everything.’

‘If you believe that passion and desire must be in place before you act, you may never start.’

‘Nothing happens until you take that first smart step.’

‘Before you act … you need to know what you want.’

‘The people who excel at creation don’t spend months or years assembling resources. They like to get started quickly- immediately, if possible.’

‘A key part of moving forward is understanding current reality.’

‘In the worst of all possible worlds, you are going to fail quickly and cheaply as a result of using Creation. That is not a bad thing.’

‘You are only one thought away from an insight that can make a problem go away, perhaps turning it into an opportunity in the process.’

‘Problems are good news (almost always). Really.’

Source:

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, & Paul B. Brown (2012). Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future

Wisdom For A Better Tomorrow

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘It is the very nature of knowledge that it changes fast and that today’s certainties will be tomorrow’s absurdities.’

‘The most effective way to manage change successfully is to create it.’

‘Any attempts to base today’s actions and commitments on predictions of future events is futile.’

‘To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent.’

‘In turbulent times, managers cannot assume that tomorrow will be an extension of today.’

‘Systemic innovation requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.’

‘Predicting the future can only get you into trouble. The task is to manage what is there and to work to create what could and should be.’

‘Balancing change and continuity requires continuous work on information.’

‘We need a new concept of information and a new understanding of learning and teaching.’

‘Innovating organizations speed neither time nor resources on defending yesterday.’

‘To make the future demands courage.’

Source:

Bruce Rosenstein (2014). Create Your Future The Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset