How Quotes

“When we look at the world through the lens of how, we see leaders shift, and others even transform, their habits of leadership from “command and control” to “connect and collaborate.” It’s a move from exerting power over people to generating waves through them.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything

“Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“A leadership disposition guides you to take the path of most resistance and turn it into the path of least resistance.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“If you are trying to bring about a better future, you must eery day go someplace you have not been before, to the point of no return. What happens every time you go to the point of no return? You push past your limits and open up new terrains of possibility. Each challenge accepted leads to greater ability when you confront the next.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“The key ingredient to progress, to getting ahead, is to leave a foundation behind.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“Zen Buddhist scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki said, "If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an "artless art" growing out of the Unconscious.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“Inspired people have a deep purpose greater than themselves. They are guided by values they deem to be fundamental—values that sustain their relationships with others in pursuit of shared visions worthy of their dedication and commitment.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything

“too many of us failed to realize that technology not only interconnected us; it also made us morally interdependent.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything

“As Albert Einstein said, we can’t expect to solve problems using the same thinking that created those problems in the first place. You can solve a way-of-life crisis only by changing the way you live.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything