68 Quotes About Science-and-change

The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.

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.

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.

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

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.

The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data.

Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.