Quotes About Adaptability

the skills possessed by a designated leader or the holder of an office may make him well-qualified to perform important group functions under certain conditions and poorly qualified under others…. The specific requirements of the group's tasks demand that members possess certain skills in order to serve the appropriate functions. If the task changes, different behaviors are required, and the same person may or may not be able to perform in the new way.

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

FEW LEADERS ARE MEN FOR ALL SEASONS. THE QUALITIES THAT DEFINE an effective leader in one circumstance may be useless or even mischievous in another.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

when you suspend your pomposity and rigidity, others recognize themselves in your flexible nature, and they'll trust you.

listen more, allow your viewpoints to be challenged, and bend when necessary

Try letting life come to you

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

It was a Temple that could be hauled away in the night by anyone with a two-inch ball on his car bumper

Relatable is the secret of success.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

She altered "priestly oppression" into "official influence" almost automatically, however, recalling that Anthony had told

if you travel with an open mind and a good heart, and remain respectful of the country you're in, then you should be fine.

If we can accept things just the way they are, we're not going to be greatly upset by anything.

The task for staying unstuck is to stay unattached to the outcome and not look back with regret.

Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not!

The danger for a small business is the inability to think and act big – The danger for a big business is the inability to think and act small…

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Did you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?" "No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

I think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.