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January 3, 2010- CMC
1. Never mistake activity for achievement. 2. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 3. Ability is a poor man’s wealth
4. Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. 5. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. 6. I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. 7. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. 8. It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
9. It isn’t what you do, but how you do it. 10. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. 11. Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. 12. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Learning organization is an organization skilled at 1) creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring, and retaining knowledge 2) acting and modifying behavior on that new knowledge or insights Learning organizations have the processes, climate, and leadership behaviors. The rate at which org and individuals learn may well become the only sustainable competitive advantage. Products can be copied, processes can be copied, services can be copied but if you're learning more rapidly than the competition you can get ahead and stay ahead. The world is changing, we have a more global environment, industry boundaries are collapsing, regulated businesses are becoming deregulated, there are new business models. If your rate of learning isn't greater than that rate of change you're going to fall behind. ~Ray Stata, former CEO of Analog Devices "Management is doing things right, "No man will make a great leader who wants to |