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“American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.”

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Author:Nora Ephron

“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.”

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Author:Madame de La Fayette

“In truth, it's usually failure, disappointment, and frustration that motivate people to reexamine that which they've taken for granted. It's rare to find big change without significant bad news. ... In that sense, the pain of failure creates the largest opportunities for progress.”

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Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business