Quotes About Growth

Shantideva says: If you are trained, There is nothing which will not become easy. First by training to tolerate minor problems, Later you will become able to tolerate great problems.

You either evolve or disappear.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones.

Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort

If team members are never pushing one another outside of their emotional comfort zones during discussions, then it is extremely likely that they're not making the best decisions for the organization.

Ask dumb questions.

people in a healthy organization, beginning with the leaders, learn from one another, identify critical issues, and recover quickly from mistakes.

The key to all of this, then, is to teach team members to get comfortable being exposed to one another, unafraid to honestly say things like "I was wrong" and "I made a mistake" and "I need help" and "I'm not sure" and "you're better than I am at that" and yes, even "I'm sorry.

I really want to know what you'd like to change about yourself, or better yet, what your best friends would say you need to work on." The key to the answer is not what their weaknesses are (unless of course they're an axe murderer), but if they're comfortable acknowledging something real.

Building a team is hard

Naked service providers don't enjoy being wrong; they just realize that it is an inevitability. And

I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it.

ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESSES AND LIMITATIONS

the only way to do this is to overcome our need for invulnerability

teams, because they are made up of imperfect human beings, are inherently dysfunctional.

The most important challenge of building a team where people hold one another accountable is overcoming the understandable hesitance of human beings to give one another critical feedback.

Ken always says that his job is to create the best team possible, not to shepherd the careers of individual athletes.

Personal growth might not be so bad after all, I decided.

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Celebrate your mistakes.

conflict is productive

All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow.