Charles Handy Quotes
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The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
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You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.
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Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
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Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers.
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The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.
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Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.
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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
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Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
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Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
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Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training.
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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
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The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
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The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
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A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
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If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
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The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.
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An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.
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The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
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Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.