Quotes About Development

The days that people make progress are the days they feel most motivated and engaged. By creating conditions for people to make progress, shining a light on that progress, recognizing and celebrating progress, organizations can help their own cause and enrich people's lives.

before you go to sleep each night, ask yourself the small question: Was I a little better today than yesterday?

Montessori Schools. Dr. Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method of teaching in the early 1900s after observing children's natural curiosity and innate desire to learn.

inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn.

single largest motivator was making progress in meaningful work.

A little kid's life bursts with autotelic experiences. Children careen from one flow moment to another, animated by a sense of joy, equipped with a mindset of possibility, and working with the dedication of a West Point cadet. They use their brains and their bodies to probe and draw feedback from the environment in an endless pursuit of mastery. Then—at some point in their lives—they don't. What happens?

about 48 percent of GE's software is developed in India.

Type I behavior has an incremental theory of intelligence, prizes learning goals over performance goals, and welcomes effort as a way to improve at something that matters.

Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the results of intense practice for a minimum of 10 years."11 Mastery—of sports, music, business—requires effort (difficult, painful, excruciating, all-consuming effort) over a long time (not a week or a month, but a decade).

Indeed, one of design's most potent economic effects is this very capacity to create new markets—whether for ring tones, cutensils, photovoltaic cells, or medical devices.

you will learn the six essential aptitudes—what I call "the six senses"—on which professional success and personal satisfaction increasingly will depend. Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These are fundamentally human abilities that everyone can master—and helping you do that is my goal.

In several studies, Dweck found that giving children a performance goal (say, getting a high mark on a test) was effective for relatively straightforward problems but often inhibited children's ability to apply the concepts to new situations.

the Reggio Emilia philosophy for the education of young children and the Waldorf schools.

Breaks and recess are not deviations from learning. They are part of learning.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success BY CAROL DWECK

mastery—the desire to get better and better at something that matters.

Tuckman believed that all teams proceeded through four stages: forming, storming, norming, and performing.

Our left brains have made us rich. Powered by armies of Drucker's knowledge workers, the information economy has produced a standard of living in much of the developed world that would have been unfathomable to our great-grandparents.

But the teacher works to convince his class to part with resources—time, attention, effort—and if they do, they will be better off when the term ends than they were when it began.

motivators"—things like enjoyment of the work itself, genuine achievement, and personal growth.

One who is interested in developing and enhancing intrinsic motivation in children, employees, students, etc., should not concentrate on external-control systems such as monetary rewards

Meantime, British organizations such as the London Business School and the Yorkshire Water Company have established artist-in-residence programs.

But at other moments, it exploded. Species experienced long periods of stasis that were interrupted by sudden bursts of change. Afterward, the newly transformed species remained stable for another long stretch—until another eruption abruptly altered its course once again.

Which leads us inexorably to canned soup.