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Leading Thoughts for November 7, 2024

Leading Thoughts

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Warren Bennis on consensus decision-making:

“Emphasis on harmony does not serve organizations particularly well. Unanimity leads rather quickly to stagnation, which, in turn, invites change by nonevolutionary means. The fact that the organizational deviant, the individual who ‘sees’ things differently, may be the institution’s vital and only link with, for lack of a better term, some new, more apt paradigm does not make the organization value him any more. Most organizations would rather risk obsolescence than make room for the non-conformists in their midst.”

Source: Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues

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Peter Drucker on manners:

“It is a Law of Nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. Two human beings in contact with each other therefore always create friction. And then manners are the lubricating oil that enables these moving bodies to work together, whether they like each other or not—simple things like saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and knowing a person's birthday or name, remembering to ask after the person's family. If the analysis shows that brilliant work fails again and again as soon as it requires cooperation by others, it probably indicates lack of courtesy, that is, of manners.”

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

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