Book Titles

How
Why How We Do Anything Means Everything

By Dov Seidman

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1118106372
Categories: Success

176 Quotes Found

Quote Image Quote Page Number

How:

Too much time spent in the realm of law limits truly creative thought.

88

How:

Human conduct is more complicated than what the language of law can describe.

89

How:

The language a group chooses… exerts a remarkable and powerful influence on the conduct that follows it.

96

How:

True freedom lies not in the absence of constraint; true freedom lies in the transcendence of rules-based thinking.

96

How:

Transcending the rules-trapped language of can and embracing the values-inspired language of should illuminates the pathways to truly innovative solutions…

97

How:

The language of values inspires us because values are aspirational in nature.

98

How:

…values are not a mechanism or device that approximates what is important or mediates between us and what is important; it connects us to it directly. Values play to our strengths as humans.

98

How:

Thinking in the language of values frees you from the tyranny of rules and from the illusion of freedom you have when in their negative space.

98

How:

Thinking and communicating in the language of should – values-based language – by its very nature inspires.

98

How:

…twenty-first-century business craves creativity and innovation over almost all else, and freeing yourself from the constraints of rules-based thought unleashes new pathways of exploration and possibility.

99