“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
–Mother Teresa
“We will need to understand that the most power stories get told, not in books and newspapers, but in the everyday world of work. Whether managers know it or not, every decision they make suggests a story to the rest of the enterprise.”
–Robert Reich, Harvard Business Review (2001)
“But the first time I drove through the inner city of West Philadelphia, I was shocked. It was not mere poverty. It was the sense that these were a people who had been forgotten.”
–Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“It is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events of our daily life.”
–Thornton Wilder on Our Town
“It is we who must train ourselves to identify the beautiful, rather than that beauty should conform to our ideals.”
–Donna Ladkin on Immanuel Kant in Rethinking Leadership
“Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“You cannot understand a system until you try to change it.”
–Kurt Lewin