Charles Handy Quotes
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A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
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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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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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Talent comes with an individual name tag.
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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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Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers.
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Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
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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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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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Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
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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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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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Learning is experience understood in tranquility.
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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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The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
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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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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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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
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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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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.
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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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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.