Quotes About Adaptation

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Progress requires change.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.

Progress does not occur without change.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Going forward seems like retreat.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

It's very different to live with a mask.