Mastering Change

We will stop encountering problems only when there is no more change.

Success is a function of external integration divided by internal disintegration.

Build a climate of Mutual Trust and Respect in your organization by having: 1) common vision and values; 2) a (PAEI) diversified structure; 3) a collaborative communication and decision-making process; and 4) mature people who command and grant respect and trust.

That’s why Lone Rangers develop gofers, Bureaucrats have yes-yes clerks, and Arsonists prefer subordinates who behave like claques.

If you want to know who you are, watch the impact you have on others. Be sensitive to how people react to you. Watch how your subordinates and peers behave. Be open to receiving feedback.

very successful corporate president once told me, “I have three doctorates although I never finished high school.” I asked him how that was possible. “Easy,” he said, “I hired them.” Know-how is easy to get; you can hire good people. To be is much more difficult. Being trusted and respected is critical for being a leader.

they are is more important than what they know.

Winston Churchill observed, “Capitalism is an unequal distribution of wealth. Communism is an equal distribution of poverty.”

the United States, decisions are made quickly but implementation is slow. In Japan, it takes a long time to make decisions, but implementation is fast.

The philosopher George Santayana said that a fanatic, having misunderstood what the reality is, doubles, triples, and quadruples his efforts. That’s how he gets stuck deeper and deeper in the sand.

As George Bernard Shaw said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”