Inside ASI-AP

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture or systems ... the core of the matter is always about changing the behaviour of people ... by speaking to people's feelings ... rather than spending all of our time on analysis and thinking. [John Kotter and Dan Cohen]

Organisations only change when enough individuals change. [Spencer Johnson]

I must become the change I want to see. [Mahatma Gandhi]

People feel excited when change is done by them, but threatened when change is done to them. [Rosabeth Moss Kanter]

Look ahead 12, 24 and 60 months. What can you predict? [Richard Pratt]

Don't blame anything except your inability to anticipate. [Richard Pratt]

Change your tactics continually, your strategy occasionally, but keep your goal constant. [Richard Pratt]

Change your thoughts and change your world. [Norman Vincent Peale]

The 'Managing, Leading & Developing People' course module is about setting yourself to keep changing, growing and developing - set yourself an action plan with some study or reading or experiences or activities to continually challenge yourself.

Friday's paper had more quotes from Richard Pratt in a headline titled "The Prattisms of King Richard":

• A body will continue in the same direction unless impacted by an outside force.
• I want my people to be fired with enthusiasm. Otherwise they'll be fired with enthusiasm.
• Don't explain, just fix it.
• It's better to make the wrong decision than no decision at all.
• Always hire the best person for the job, not the best available. If they're available, they're not the best.
• Make sure you hire some mavericks. You always need to have a couple of mavericks in any successful business.
• There can only be one boss.