Charles Handy Quotes

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Passion is born of vague hopes.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.