Quotes from Richard Pascale

Nothing fails like success.

Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

a thousand hearings aren't worth one seeing, and a thousand seeings aren't worth one doing).

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

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