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Best Quotes, Graphics and Artwork

I’ve saved my best favourite quotes, graphics and artwork for the better part of 35 years.

Somtimes it’s good advice to remember. A pithy quote to use at the perfect time. A complex thought told in a simple way. A truism worth considering. A bit of a laugh.

Like many of my teaching files, this collection has been taking over my computer. So, I’m moving them here so others can enjoy them too.

As much as possible, I’ve tried to cite the original owner of author of the quotes, graphics, artwork and charts. Please let me know if I need to correct any caption or source. Captions are redundant in some cases, but included to find the picture in the website’s search engine.

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Change
Communications
Continuous Improvement
Creativity
Decision Making
Emotions
Empathy
Humour
Leadership
Motivation
Perspective
Problem Solving
Resilience
Strategy
Teams
Thinking Styles
The Diffusion of Innovation Model, Everett Rogers
There are far better things ahead
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Applies to Employee Engagement
Change - from Strategic to Tactical
Nine Different Change Models
100% wrong if you want to be a good communicator
When trying to persuade, it's important to know whaich level are you talking to? From easy to hard: behaviours, attitudes, values and beliefs
You're probably boring your audience: Helen Gurley Brown
How to Map Key Stakeholders: Mendelow's Power-Interest Matrix: (see also RACI below)

Continuous Improvement

Measurement from the godfather of continuous improvement: W Edwards Deming
10 Principles of Kaizen
The six different types of benchmarking in strategic planning and continuous improvement
25 Useful Brainstorm Techniques from Celestine Chua
Divergent vs Convergent Thinking
If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders. Walt Whitman
Interesting someone they labeled strategic thinking as critical thinking
The greatest skill is to decrease the time beteween idea and execution

Decision Making

How to make big decisions
Who's Responsible? Who Accountable? Who is Consulted? Who is simply Informed?
Impact vs Effort Matrix. See also PICK Matrix (right)
How to choose the best idea: the PICK Chart (Payoff vs Difficulty)

Emotions

Everytime you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry?
Anger is one letter short of danger
I over-analyse situations because I'm scared of what will happen if I'm not prepared for it. Not 100% sure, but quoted from Masquerade by Turcois Ominek.

Empathy

Empathy in Theory vs Empathy in Practice
Know the theory, be a person, Carl Jung
Vacilando: what I've always called "life"

Humour

Pessimism, Optimism and Uncle Stan
It's not voyeurism if you're solving mysteries
Sorry for the late response
A Lot of Overlap
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else. Isaac Asimov
You are a houseplant with complicated emotions

Leadership

By Justin Wright
TRUST - How good leaders build good teams
This chart should be labeled Leadership.

Motivation, Just Get Started

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It's not enough to do your best. You must know what you do. Then do your best. W Edwards Deming
Take the Risk or Lose the Chance
Life is like a boxing match
What's stopping me from becoming great?

Personal Productivity, Resilience

Resilience
From Entrepreneur.com
How to say no gracefully
How to say NO to your manager and still keep your job
Never be a prisoner of your past.
Failing is not always failure

Perspective

Perspective changes everything
We do not see things as they are

Problem Solving

Muddy Puddles vs Leaky Ceilings by James Clear
Problem Solving Solutions Finding Wheel
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. W Edwards Deming (his name is spelt wrong: it's "Edwards")
Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining. Theodore Roosevelt

Strategy, Strategic Thinking

Jack Welch: Good leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Different than the Strategic Pyramid (see right), this chart maps Vision, Mission, Values as the core strategy of an organisation
The Strategic Pyramid shows the three basic levels of strategy in any organisation
Porter's Five Forces: each 'force' explained
Porter's Five Forces (see pix to left for explanation of each force))
VRIO - an internal business analysis framework to evaluates all the resources and capabilities of an organisation

Teams

5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, explained

Thinking Styles

From Educators Technology
Search "The Information Chain" for more
The Dunning Kruger Effect: How People Learn (Confidence vs Competence)
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