Paul Gibbons Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous. — Paul Gibbons

All of us are not always smarter than one of us, leaders need to distinguish between the wisdom of crowds and the madness of crowds. — Paul Gibbons

The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems. — Paul Gibbons

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

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

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

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management. — Paul Gibbons

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management. — Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection. — Paul Gibbons

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

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers. — Paul Gibbons

Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks. — 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

When it comes to the arc of your life, leadership is a sacred responsibility. — Paul Gibbons

The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data. — Paul Gibbons

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off. — 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

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

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

The problem is not lack of competence, it is confidence without competence. — 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

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

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning. — Paul Gibbons

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed. — 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 psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths. — 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

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing. — Paul Gibbons

Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects. — Paul Gibbons

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational. — Paul Gibbons

Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience. — Paul Gibbons

Leadership must evolve into a "science-based craft", like surgery. — Paul Gibbons

The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment. — 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

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. — Paul Gibbons

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence. — Paul Gibbons

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

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program. — Paul Gibbons

Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste — Paul Gibbons

That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss. — Paul Gibbons

Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing. — 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

Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures. — Paul Gibbons

It is time to euthanize change management. — Paul Gibbons

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

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure. — Paul Gibbons

Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk. — Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to". — Paul Gibbons

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

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life. — Paul Gibbons

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth. — Paul Gibbons