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We’ll be all happier and productive if we hurry up and fail… moving quickly is a plus because it prevents from being stuck and getting nowhere… the director’s job is to say “land is that way”. Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. It’s not a tragedy if the leader changes her mind and says “I was wrong”... people want decisiveness and honesty

Candor, safety, research, self assessment and protecting the new are all mechanisms we can use to confront the unknown and to keep the chaos and fear to a minimum. These concepts don’t necessarily make anything easier but they can help us uncover hidden problems and thus enable us to address them.

What’s needed … is we approach big and small problems with the same set of values and emotions, because they are in fact self similar.

In many organizations managers tend to err on the side of secrecy, keeping things hidden from their employees… What is needed is a thoughtful consideration of cost of secrecy weighted against the risks. When you instantly resort to secrecy you are telling people that they cannot be trusted. When you are candid you are telling people that you trust them and there’s nothing to fear.

“we struggled to understand what a woman was. Our every move or thought or conversation or dream, once analyzed in depth, seemed not to belong to us. And this excavation seemed to exasperate those who were weaker, who couldn’t tolerate such an excess of self-reflection and believed that to embark on the road of freedom it was enough simply to cut off men. These were unstable times, arcing in waves.”

Creativity is the best business plan… Quality is not a consequence of following some set of behaviours. Rather it is a prerequisite and a mindset you must have before you decide what you are setting out to do. Everyone says quality is important. But they must do more than say it. They must live, think, and breathe it.

“Boş vererek değil ama bir gün öleceğini bilerek yaşasak, daha hoşgörülü daha az sinirli olsak”

Katman katman bir hikaye, sezonlarca dizi olur gibi geldi okurken.

“Başımdan bir macera geçsin istedim. Hayatta çok şey var, olabilir am bekliyorsun işte. Şöyle geliyor bana: Sanki olmasını istediğim şeyler çok yavaş oluyor ve olurken de onları düşündüğüm ve beklediğim gibi olmuyorlar; hepsi sanki beni öfkelendirmek için ağır ağır geliyorlar ve sonra birden bakıyorsun hemen geçip gitmişler gibi”

Demokrasi olan memlekette bir adam sarhoş oldu mu “Ah ne oldu benim güzel sevgilime?” diye ağlar. Demokrasi olmayan yerde ise bir adam sarhoş oldu mu “Ah ne oldu benim güzel memleketime?” diye ağlar.