Richard Pascale Quotes

#1. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

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#2. The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.

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#3. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

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#4. Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

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#5. Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

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#6. Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

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#7. The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

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#8. Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

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#9. People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

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#10. Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes
a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living system. Because the unexpected
adversity
is guaranteed, this discipline is about routinely making lemons into lemon meringue pie.

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#11. Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!

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#12. Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

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