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Teams that fall in love with a problem have more successful outcomes than teams that fall in love with particular solutions. This is because knowing that a problem is worth solving continues to be motivating even when a team doesn’t come across the right solution on the first, second, or Nth try.

Content: Quotation | Author: Julie Zhuo | Source: Medium | Subjects: Challenge, Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Problems / Solutions, Teamwork

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, Management, Vision, Work

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Content: Quotation | Source: Various | Subjects: Ability, Challenge

You cannot create against a yielding medium. Let me have something finite, definite. My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint, diminishes strength.

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Challenge, Innovation

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Achievement, Challenge

The seductive pull of equilibrium poses a constant danger to successful established companies.

…While equilibrium endangers living systems, it often wears the disguise of an attribute. Equilibrium is concealed inside strong values or a coherent, close-knit social system, or within a company’s well-synchronized operating system (often referred to as “organizational fit”). Vision, values, and organizational fit are double-edged swords.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Challenge, Miscellaneous

It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Adversity, Challenge

There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, People

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do. Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves — we put them there, and we can take them down.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Challenge, Life

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge

People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Challenge