Quiet Leadership Quotes

“The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ANTHONY JAY”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“Here’s my full list of guidelines for how to apply the principles of this chapter to email communication. 1. Emails should contain as few words as possible. 2. Make it easy to see your central point at a glance, in one screen. 3. Never send an email that could emotionally affect another person unless it’s pure positive feedback. 4. Emotional issues must be discussed by phone; email should be used only to book a time for a call. 5. If you accidentally break rule number four, phone the person immediately, apologize, and discuss the issue by phone.”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“Your brain craves patterns and searches for them endlessly. THOMAS B. CZERNER (2001)”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“we see the world as we are, not as the world is.”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“They need leaders who help them shine, who help them fulfill their potential at work.”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“One of the difficulties of stretching ourselves is that we tend to see ourselves as our limitations, not as our potential. We’re lost in our own world.”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives

“testing out models, and then refining everything further, I developed a set of ideas that was transforming people’s ability”
― David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work – A Practical Neuroscience Guide for Managers and Executives