Thoughts To Ponder

Giving everyone a turn increases the intelligence of a group.

In some ways I believe I epitomise the average New Zealander: I have modest abilities, I combine these with a good deal of determination, and I rather like to succeed.

A coaching culture is one where coaching is the predominant style of managing and working together and where commitment to improving the organisation is embedded in a parallel commitment to improving the people.

To develop a coaching culture, you have to inoculate people against advice or at least encourage a community where advice is discouraged. In the absence of advice, people find their own competence.

The most relevant relationship that coaching addresses is the one they have with themselves.

Brains, like hearts, go where they are most appreciated.

Of all the keys of the one minute manager, the one minute praising is the most powerful.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.

There is a field beyond right thinking and wrong thinking. I will meet you there.

The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Life is too short to make all your own mistakes yourself.

The affirmation and analysis of success is extremely potent in generating further growth and development.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals who can go it alone.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.