Collections from the Road... #53
“The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no vision.” - Helen Keller
“There’s never a budget for the management of change.” - A UK Government Minister in a recent talk.
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behaviour.” Dee Hock
“Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains.” - Unknown
“Developing leaders and high-potential talent has become a strategic necessity.” - Jim Bolt
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” - Bertrand Russell
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing.” - Albert Schweitzer
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Interactive design [is] a seamless blend of graphic arts, technology, and psychology.” - Brad Wieners
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” - Ben Shneiderman
And finally - and at the same talk - just not by the same UK Government Minister... (Deliberately not attributed)
“The commercial models between us and the private sector are in the main incompatible...”
“Implement change, not technology...”
“There are glaring discrepancies and real paradoxes between the definitions in Private Sector and Government in the following areas, leadership, risk, ownership, objectives, and relationship - in these observations lies the gap between our assumptions, our expectations and then our disillusionment...”
John Caswell I Group Partners I http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net | SKYPE John Caswell | Weblog http://johncaswell.typepad.com/my_weblog/
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.” - Woody Allen
P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to
“There’s never a budget for the management of change.” - A UK Government Minister in a recent talk.
“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behaviour.” Dee Hock
“Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains.” - Unknown
“Developing leaders and high-potential talent has become a strategic necessity.” - Jim Bolt
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” - Bertrand Russell
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing.” - Albert Schweitzer
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” - Benjamin Disraeli
“Interactive design [is] a seamless blend of graphic arts, technology, and psychology.” - Brad Wieners
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” - Ben Shneiderman
And finally - and at the same talk - just not by the same UK Government Minister... (Deliberately not attributed)
“The commercial models between us and the private sector are in the main incompatible...”
“Implement change, not technology...”
“There are glaring discrepancies and real paradoxes between the definitions in Private Sector and Government in the following areas, leadership, risk, ownership, objectives, and relationship - in these observations lies the gap between our assumptions, our expectations and then our disillusionment...”
John Caswell I Group Partners I http://www.grouppartnerswiki.net | SKYPE John Caswell | Weblog http://johncaswell.typepad.com/my_weblog/
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.” - Woody Allen
P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to
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