Quotes by Charles Handy

Charles Handy

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

Giving

Leader

Vision

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Environmental

Growth

Ideas

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Change

Growth

Synonym

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Differences

Life

Making A Difference

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Business

Creativity

Needs

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of “intellectual property” without taking on board what it really means. It isn’t just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

Land

Mean

Real

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Believe

Insecurity

Success

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.

Alive

Change

Water

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Mean

Progress

Promise

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Communication

Law

Thinking

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Fortune Cookie

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Government

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Insecurity

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Inspiring

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Leader

Leadership

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Life

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Made

Making A Difference

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Quotes by Charles Handy

Charles Handy

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of “intellectual property” without taking on board what it really means. It isn’t just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

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