Richard Tanner Pascale > Quotes

“(a thousand hearings aren’t worth one seeing, and a thousand seeings aren’t worth one doing).”
― Richard Pascale, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.”
― Richard Pascale, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!”
― Richard Pascale, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.”
― Richard Pascale, Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

“Beleaguered executives complained that they didn’t “. . . have time to do our jobs.” Browne’s answer: “Perhaps solving these kinds of [adaptive] problems is the job of senior managers. Maybe we should be delegating more of the routine stuff to develop the ranks below.”
― Richard Tanner Pascale, Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

“(guided only by the constraint that the group be small enough in number to fit around a table in a Chinese restaurant).”
― Richard Tanner Pascale, Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business