Quotes About Diverse Perspectives

#1. You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.

Eunice Parisi-Carew

#2. Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Rick Warren

#4. To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

Elizabeth Thornton

#5. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

James Surowiecki

#6. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#7. The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

J.G. Ballard

#8. Aw, bugger it. Don't die wondering.

Kirsty Eagar

#9. For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

James Surowiecki

#10. There is no dangerous path for the water; there is no dangerous path for the fearless!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Errollyn Wallen

#12. Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#13. What is good is the fact that we've got a broad selection of candidates [for Prime Minister] ... to choose from, representing a diverse set of backgrounds, a diverse set of perspectives.

Nicky Morgan

#14. They had cut him open and excised his Free Will.

Ian Tregillis

#15. No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

William John Locke

#16. What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

Steven Johnson

#17. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent