John Hattan

“Self-awareness and discipline are relevant to the task of generating for yourself the freedom to respond with a nondefensive defense when the attack is personal, and with an expanded set of options when it is not.”
― Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change

“You can’t cook without a pot to cook in, and leadership is as much about strengthening the pot and controlling the temperature as it is about which ingredients to add when.”
― Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change

“What did it matter if one more entry was added to the litany of his faults? Both the Devil and St. Peter had likely long since lost count.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder on Black Swan Lane

“In science, it was a cardinal mistake to allow assumption, not observation, to shape a conclusion.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder on Black Swan Lane