Jane Mueller

‘While false urgency has always existed to some degree, the pandemic, heightened connectivity, and the expectation for rapid responses have stealthily solidified its presence.’ @DinaDSmith via @HarvardBiz hbr.org/2023/10/5-tact…

The world needs wisdom, not jargon. Too much knowledge is lost because people try to sound smart. Speak to bless, not to impress.

‘Hire slowly, fire quickly. … I favored those who came out of college with student loans because those who hadn’t had everything paid for were hungrier. And those who’d encountered adversity were more resilient.’ @LizElting via @bigthink bigthink.com/business/case-…

‘Going a little easier on yourself in the moment? That doesn’t mean you’ve relaxed your standards. That doesn’t mean your goals are less lofty. That just means weakness or failure is a natural step on the road to eventual achievement.’ @jeff_haden via @Inc inc-aus.com/jeff-haden/why…

‘I respect the right of all parents to send their child to a mainstream school. All I ask is that I be afforded the same right to choose to send my child to a special school.’ @KerenZelwer via @smh theage.com.au/national/victo…

‘Create a new season. … If you don’t learn how to create a new season, one season will start to blend into the next and, before you know it, you won’t know why, but you just won’t care anymore.’ @AnthonySilard via @PsychToday psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-ar…

‘Intelligent failures happen when you try something new in pursuit of a worthy goal. … Without experiencing a healthy dose of intelligent failure, children might develop a habit of avoiding risk.’ @AmyCEdmondson via @TheCharacterLab characterlab.org/tips-of-the-we…

‘How you define things creates artificial limitations, hampering both personal growth and business success.’ @Pragmadik via @Inc inc-aus.com/andrea-olson/a…

‘Obviousness fallacy is the notion that the options that are most convenient, most popular, and most easy to understand and manage, are the best ones.’ @HerbertLui herbertlui.net/obviousness-fa…

'The ladder approach is not about sugarcoating or minimizing the message. It’s about presenting a pathway for situational improvement. It represents the ability to go from low to high, with each rung defining an achievable goal.' @TheJoelTruth via @Inc inc-aus.com/joel-schwartzb…

‘‘I’ am always my first problem, and if I deal with ‘me’, then I can deal with other problems much more effectively.’ #justthis @RichardRohrOFM

‘NASA realizes that they’re not primarily in the space business, they’re in the inspiration business. Space just happens to be their chosen fulcrum tool to achieve the latter.’ @gapingvoid gapingvoid.com/blog/2023/08/1…

‘Ben Chestnut had a striking line he liked to give his employees: “It’s not my job to make you happy.” … He wasn’t trying to make his employees happy per se, because who the heck knows what makes other people happy. People are complicated.’ @gapingvoid gapingvoid.com/blog/2023/08/0…

‘Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. … If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.’ @ThisIsSethsBlog

‘In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.’ @Mark_Sanborn

‘It’s fascinating that listening is so simple, and yet maybe in part because it feels simple, many of us are remarkably bad at it.’ Legge via @PsychToday psychologytoday.com/au/blog/are-we…

‘Leaders who can’t be questioned, end up doing questionable things.’ @JonAcuff

‘Consciously or unconsciously, leaders put in place structures and practices that make sense to them. These correspond to their way of dealing with the world and mean that an organisation cannot evolve beyond its leadership’s stage of development.’ Hermanni Hyytiälä @hemppah

'... too many change leaders neglect the all-important human side of change equation. The most effective change leaders ... remember that people need time to adapt to change — no matter how fast-moving the change initiative.' @CCLdotORG ccl.org/articles/leadi…

'Remarkable people typically go off-script early, usually in more than one way. ... The ever-longer march through school creates a bizarre barrier separating the student from reality.' @simonsarris via @palladiummag palladiummag.com/2023/06/06/sch…