Quotes About Development

Fill pits, then build peaks.

big changes come from a succession of small changes. It's OK if the first changes seem almost trivial. The challenge is to get the Elephant moving, even if the movement is slow at first.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan famously posed

To change yourself or other people, you've got to change habits

The Springboard. Denning

Once people are on the path and making progress, it's important to make their advances visible. With

When you've celebrated moving from 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3, you gain confidence that you can make the next advance.

growth mindset compliment praises effort rather than natural skill:

the growth mindset can be taught and that it can change lives.

to create and sustain change, you've got to act more like a coach and less like a scorekeeper. You've got to embrace a growth mindset and instill it in your team.

Teach the growth mindset. Every success is going to involve rough patches.

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Robert Maurer [Individual and organizational change]. If you liked the chapter on shrinking the change, this is your book. Maurer shows how small steps can lead to great change.

The hard question for a leader is not how to form habits but which habits to encourage.

new habits can clear the Path.

What's working, and how can we do more of it?

Marcus Buckingham, who says that

In other words, companies aren't born in garages. Companies are born in companies. This

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

Big changes can happen.

trainers set a behavioral destination and then use "approximations," meaning that they reward each tiny step toward the destination.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Don't look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

What do you expect?" she said. "Kids get to their teen years, the hormones kick in, and they spend a few years operating without a frontal lobe.

Change isn't an event; it's a process.