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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.
Charles Handy
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Charles Handy
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: January 1
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Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
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A consultant solves other peoples problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
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Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers
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We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.
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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
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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.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
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Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training
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