William Arthur Ward: The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher…
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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- When our desire for affirmation is stronger than our desire for INSIGHT, we nullify our ability to benefit from HINDSIGHT and block our ability to gain FORESIGHT.
- Tension is anything that stretches us beyond our normal limits. Therefore leadership is the dissonance our normal must embrace for greatness.
- There is no easy way to learn hard things. There is the difficult way and the most difficult way. The difficult way is to learn from the mistakes of others. The most difficult way is to have to learn from your own mistakes, because you didn't learn, or refused to learn, from the mistakes of others.
- Leaders must be BIGGER than what they would say or do in a given situation that would give them cause to judge what someone said or did.
- Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.