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"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."
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Personal Development
"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
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Personal Development
"If it's the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I'm driving down a long road with a short bridge."
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Personal Development
"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
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Personal Development
"There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use."
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Personal Development
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
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Personal Development
"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
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"Consequences are unpitying."
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Personal Development
"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
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"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."
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"Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others."
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"Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."
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"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
World
"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."
Leadership
"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
Leadership
"For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role."
Help
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
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"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
Leadership
"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole."
Gain
"And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive."
Time
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