Quotes About Development

Effectiveness, in other words, is a habit; that is, a complex of practices. And practices can always be learned.

Effective executives build on strengths

Energy, resources, and time should go instead to making a competent person into a star performer.

We cannot yet develop a theory of innovation. But we already know enough to say when, where, and how one looks systematically for innovative opportunities, and how one judges the chances for their success or the risks of their failure. We know enough to develop, though still only in outline form, the practice of innovation.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

I soon learned that there is no "effective personality

We need far too many leaders to depend only on the naturals.

And then I realize that maybe not so much has changed as we all thought, that maybe the whole idea of progress is a paradox, a rocking horse that goes forward and back, forward and back, but stays in the same place, giving only the comforting illusion of motion.

We have to remember that we are not just giving students feedback; we are also teaching them to provide it.

I'm not good at this yet" and to take steps to change that.

If you're going to offer critique, focus on the process and possibility.

The last two forms of feedback, "You tried really hard" and "You found a good way to do it; could you think of other ways that would also work?" focus on different aspects of the process—effort and strategy—and not on the person.

First, it gets children into the habit of explaining successes and failures in terms of strategy use.

knowledge is constructed, and that people play an active role in its construction.

Feelings, too, are socialized—we learn what they are, or rather, we acquire meanings for them.

Marie Clay (1993) refers to this as attending to the "partially correct." Its significance cannot be overstated.

Stephen summarizes, "It's when you look back and you learn how much you've grown and changed.

dynamic view of intellect—indeed, of self.

you get smarter the more you learn.

Para que algo suceda, algún suceso tiene que modificarse o algo que hasta el momento estaba inmóvil tiene que moverse.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.

The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.

As for the thing that changes, although it can be what it will become, it is not yet what it will become. It actually exists right now in this state (an acorn); it will actually exist in that state (large oak tree). But it is not actually in that state now. It only has the potentiality for that state.