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Charles Handy points out that the key role of leaders is to keep the “wheel” moving.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
I used to think that if you cared for other people, you need to study sociology or something like it. But….I [have] concluded, if you want to help other people, be a manager. If done well, management is among the most noble of professions. You are in a position where you have eight or ten hours every day from every person who works for you. You hav... See more
Clay Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
Third, for business families, longevity is more important than occasional brilliance: each generation is both a custodian and a builder for future generations, but one silly or arrogant leader can in a few disastrous steps, destroy an entire legacy.
Kelly Pang • Asking Why
When organizations are very small, individuals matter most. But when organizations grow larger, the system - its structure and dynamics - comes to dominate the analysis.
Alex Komoroske • Coordination Headwind - How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
- Greatness starts with superb people.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
the best ways to imagine may be the ones that position this work as a collaboration—done with people rather than to or for them—giving people and communities the freedom to learn by doing and to adapt the general into the particular.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
