Bungay Quotes

#1. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#2. We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.

Stephen Bungay

#3. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Francis Harold Cook

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James Crosbie

#5. Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.

Stephen Bungay

#6. What matters about creating alignment around a strategy is not the volume of communication, but its quality and precision.

Stephen Bungay

#7. Real friends, are really hard to come by.

Anthony Liccione

#8. Silence is often a measure of success.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#9. When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. LOU HOLTZ

Michael Bungay Stanier

#10. Five times a second, at an unconscious level, your brain is scanning the environment around you and asking itself: Is it safe here? Or is it dangerous?

Michael Bungay Stanier

#11. If Clausewitz is right, no one should develop a strategy without taking into account the effects of organizational friction. Yet we continue to be surprised and frustrated when it manifests itself. We tend to think everything has gone wrong when in fact everything has gone normally.

Stephen Bungay

#12. Understanding gets compliance. Only belief gets commitment.

Stephen Bungay

#13. The hunter is patient. The prey is careless.

Jeff Wheeler

#14. Cowards ... cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

Simon Sinek

#15. I steady him, he steadies me, the chain that binds us, the chain that sets us free.
- Ben Parish.

Rick Yancey

#16. What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done.

Stephen Bungay

#17. My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

Dean Winters

#18. Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

Stephen Bungay

#19. In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen shares a crucial insight: "You can't do a project. You can only do the next step.

Michael Bungay Stanier