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Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.Paul Gibbons
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Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.Paul Gibbons
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Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.Paul Gibbons
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The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.Paul Gibbons
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Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.Paul Gibbons
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As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.Paul Gibbons
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The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a “right time” for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!Paul Gibbons
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A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!Paul Gibbons
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A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.Paul Gibbons
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Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.Paul Gibbons
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Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.Paul Gibbons
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Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.Paul Gibbons
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When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.Paul Gibbons
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The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.Paul Gibbons
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Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".Paul Gibbons
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Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.Paul Gibbons
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Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.Paul Gibbons
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Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.Paul Gibbons
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Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.Paul Gibbons
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Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.Paul Gibbons
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Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.Paul Gibbons
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Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.Paul Gibbons
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It is time to euthanize change management.Paul Gibbons
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The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.Paul Gibbons
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We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.Paul Gibbons
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21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.Paul Gibbons