68 Quotes About Science-and-change

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment.

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.

Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

La vraie science commence par de la curiosité et de la folie.

Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.