Quotes About Flexibility

Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

The best leaders don't know just one style of leadership—they're skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Leadership is about coping with change

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.