Quotes about Flexibility

Successful leaders help their people find their right seats. Sometimes that requires moving people around to find where they make the greatest contribution. Sometimes it means trying and failing. As a leader, you have to take it all in stride. Positioning people correctly is a process, and you have to treat it that way.

you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

PEOPLE DO NOT NATURALLY RESIST CHANGE; THEY RESIST BEING CHANGED.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Perhaps the most important problem-solving skill that I have learned and practiced over the years is mental agility.

When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.

I have learned over the years that whenever one door seemingly closes, another door opens. You just have to keep positive, stay aware, and look to see what it is. Instead of getting upset when things don't unfold as you anticipated, always ask yourself the question "What's the possibility that this is?