Quotes About Development

It means constantly seeking and implementing better ways of thinking and acting across old and new corners of the system.

Characteristics of sound feedback include that it should be frequent, give students a clear picture of their progress and how they might improve, and provide encouragement.

the use of rewards as a motivational strategy is clearly a risky proposition, so we continue to argue for thinking about educational practices that will engage students' interest and support the development of their self-regulation.

The only feedback teachers receive is whether they use the strategy. Such a process provides no feedback as to the level of skill a teacher exhibits relative to a particular strategy. This absence violates a basic principle of effective feedback

Teacher Self-Assessment: A Mechanism for Facilitating Professional Growth.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.

An argument must have opposition if it is to prove itself, my son," she said. "One who argues truly learns the depth of his commitment through adversity. Did you not learn that trees grow roots most strongly when winds blow through them?

Women were always happy for a chance to educate a boy when he was young; Mat thought they assumed they could educate him out of becoming a man if they tried hard enough.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. Nothing

Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.

Times change. People change. Too much change for me. I suppose I am growing old.

Everything changed, with time.

We all know that change is hard, but we don't know enough about why it is so hard and what we can do about it.

Better Me + Better You = Better Us

A DDO represents, instead, a rethinking of the very place of people development in organizational life. What if a company did everything within its power to create the conditions for individuals to overcome their own internal barriers to change, to take stock of and transcend their own blind spots, and to see errors and weaknesses as prime opportunities for personal growth?

The way we're going to be a better company is by your working on yourself, and helping others work on themselves.

Reflection = Progress

At the simplest level, any particular expression of the immunity to change provides us a picture of how we are systematically working against the very goal we genuinely want to achieve.

It is a consistent mark of the DDOs we studied that the senior people are as deeply engaged in the personal growth journey as the newest hires. Working

The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do.

Like the two other DDOs, Next Jump challenges employees by moving them into roles for which they're not yet prepared to succeed and then provides them with steady streams of feedback to help them grow into those roles. In all three companies, if you're completely able to perform your role, it's no longer the right role for you; it has no 'stretch' left.

Necesitamos un sistema educativo que le enseñe a la gente a aprender de sus errores, en lugar de que los castigue por cometerlos.

The massive movement of people from low-productivity rural areas to cities with private industry has spurred China's development… When Communist China was governed by socialist ideologues it was an impoverished, totalitarian police state that killed tens of millions of its own people. Now that Communist China practices crony capitalism, it is a prosperous and much more restrained police state.

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.