Paul Gibbons Quotes

Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning.

~ Paul Gibbons

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

~ Paul Gibbons

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

~ Paul Gibbons

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

~ Paul Gibbons

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

~ Paul Gibbons

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

~ Paul Gibbons

The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a “right time” for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing that you have always wanted to do. Start now!

~ Paul Gibbons

A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

~ Paul Gibbons

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

~ Paul Gibbons

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

~ Paul Gibbons

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

~ Paul Gibbons

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

~ Paul Gibbons

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

~ Paul Gibbons

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

~ Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to sacrifice power-over to get power-to.

~ Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

~ Paul Gibbons

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

~ Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

~ Paul Gibbons

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

~ Paul Gibbons

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

~ Paul Gibbons

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

~ Paul Gibbons

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

~ Paul Gibbons

It is time to euthanize change management.

~ Paul Gibbons

The notion of business as usual is a harmful myth.

~ Paul Gibbons

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

~ Paul Gibbons

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

~ Paul Gibbons