Performance, Change and Strategy

Favourite Quotations

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities in the experts few”  Shunryu Suzuki

“Find out what works and do more of it”  Steve de Shazer

“Human systems grow in the direction of what people study.  Therefore ask questions that strenghten a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate and heighten positive potential”.
David Cooperrider / Diana Whitney

“Concentrating on people’s strengths..… this, and only this, will be the major differentiator for organisations in the future”.
Dr. John Hunt

“Problem talk creates problems, solution talk creates solutions”.
Steve De Shazer

“Fixing weaknesses isn’t development, it is damage control.  And damage control is a poor strategy for elevating the employee or the organisation to world class performance”.
Buckingham / Clifton

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook”.
William James

“No problem can be solved by the same awareness that created it”.
Albert Einstein

“Always address a person in his/her resources first”.
Insoo Kim Berg

“It is irrelevant to the solution, why the problem occurred”.
Werner Herren

“Elegance is when there is nothing left to add, and nothing left to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of The Little Prince

“You cannot teach anybody anything.  You can only help them to discover it in themselves”.   Galileo Galilei 

 “We are  so often seduced by sophistication and bewitched by complication”  Jackie Keddy  Metropolitan Police