Quotes from Charles Handy

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

I do not believe in god, but I miss him.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.