«Si quieres construir un barco, no empieces por buscar madera, cortar tablas o distribuir el trabajo. Despierta primero en los hombres y mujeres el anhelo del mar libre y ancho»." antoine de saint-exupéry autor de El principito:
El tiempo que su gente pasa en el trabajo, no importa cuánto tiempo, proviene del banco finito de sus días en esta Tierra. Eso No debe darse por sentado.
Los gerentes ayudan a su gente a garantizar que sea un tiempo bien invertido, en beneficio de esa persona, de su equipo, de su empresa y de la sociedad en general.
Cuando sus pozos se secan, cuando se preguntan para qué sirve todo, los gerentes ayudan a su gente a responder la pregunta:
Dime, ¿qué planeas hacer con tu única preciosa y salvaje vida?"
—Mary Oliver
Les decimos a los demás qué y cómo aprender todo el tiempo. Enseñamos y predicamos que las personas deben ser "aprendices de por vida". Sin un aprendizaje continuo, advertimos, la gente perderá su trabajo porque ya no será económicamente relevante (esto se conoce como obsolescencia económica). Sin embargo, los profesionales del aprendizaje a menudo no caminamos por el camino que hablamos.
Neelen, M., & Kirschner, P. A. (2020). Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating Training to Improve Performance. Holanda: Kogan Page Publishers
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● A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.--Kenneth A. Wells ● Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.--Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist ● A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.--Wilson Mizner, Author ● Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.--Dwight Eisenhower ● Results yields respect.--Clark Kellogg ● Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.--Sophia Loren, Actress● The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.--Theodore Roosevelt ● The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.--Unknown ● Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.--Unknown ● Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.--William James ● Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.--Japanese Proverb ● In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.--Theodore Roosevelt ● Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.--George Bernard Shaw ● If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.--Isaac B. Singer ● Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.--Unknown ● Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.--Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor ● Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.--Unknown ● We all make something. Some make excuses. Some make differences.--Unknown ● To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.--Dorothea Brande ● Success is a do-it-yourself project.--Unknown ● Destiny is a matter of choice, not a matter of chance.--Unknown ● I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.--Paul Harvey ● Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.--Unknown ● Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.--Mark Twain ● Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.--David Starr Jordan ● Problems are chances for us to do our best.--Duke Ellington ● There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.--Mario Cuomo ● Teamwork begins when it doesn't matter who gets the recognition.--Unknown ● The road to success runs uphill.--Willie Davis ● No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.--Eleanor Roosevelt | ● I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.--John Cage● Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.--T. S. Elliot ● Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.--Conrad Hilton, Founder of Hilton Hotels ● One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.--Eleanor Roosevelt ● Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.--Albert Einstein ● Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.--Truman Capote ● Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.--Peter F. Drucker ● Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.--George S. Patton ● The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.--Theodore M. Hesburgh ● When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.--Albert Einstein ● People won't care how much you know until they know how much you care.--Unknown ● Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.--Will Rogers ● We cannot become what we want to be by remaining the way we are.--Max DePree ● My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.--Montaigne ● Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.--Henri L. Bergson ● No one ever complained their way to the top.--Frank Perdue ● Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.--Samuel Johnson ● Those who follow will dare to reach only as high as their leaders. So, leaders, stand on your toes...and stretch!--Unknown ● What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us--Unknown ● The only person who never makes mistakes is the one who never does anything.--Theodore Roosevelt ● Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.--Unknown ● Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.--John Wooden ● Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.--Unknown ● Whether you think you can or you think you can't...either way, you are right!--Henry Ford ● Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.--John Wesley ● What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ● Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.--George Bernard Shaw ● The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.--Michael Althsuler | ● Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.--Dan Stanford ● Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.--Margaret Thatcher, Former British Prime Minister ● Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.--Dr. Phil● Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.--Martin Luther King, Jr. ● There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.--Dr. Denis Waitley ● A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.--Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari Computer● Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.--Robert Half ● If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.--Unknown ● The best way to predict the future is to create it.--Unknown ● Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.--George Carlin ● Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.--Dale Carnegie ● Credibility is what you earn after you do what you say you will do.--Unknown ● Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.--Sir Winston Churchill ● I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.--General George S. Patton ● As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.--Andrew Carnegie ● The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is the knack of getting along with people.--Theodore Roosevelt ● Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.--Conrad Hilton ● Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.--Unknown ● Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.--Unknown ● Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.--Lloyd Jones ● Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.--Unknown ● Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.--Unknown ● People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why I recommend both daily.--Zig Ziglar ● You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.--Henry Ford ● The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.--Og Mandino ● There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.--Dr. Denis Waitley |