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As Lynn Sharp Paine noted […] most companies are simply not designed to remember commitments over time—let alone communicate them clearly, hand them off between departments, or adjust them effectively as priorities change.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Elizabeth Doty, Lynn Sharp Paine | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Commitment, Organizational Behavior

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Commitment, Innovation, Management

The interested person will do what is convenient. The committed person will do whatever it takes.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Commitment

Commitment is the emotional attachment one has to the organisation within which one works and the pride one has in its achievements. Engagement, on the other hand, is more – the demonstration of discretionary effort to ensure the organisation achieves its goals.

Two insights influence how we think through the role and development of effective leaders and managers. First, there is likely to be a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Commitment, Organizational Behavior

Willpower goes a decisive step further than motivation. It implies a commitment that comes only from a deep, personal attachment to a certain intention. Willpower springs from a conscious choice to make a concrete thing happen. This commitment to a certain end – not to doing something but to achieving something – represents the engagement of the human will.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Commitment, Motivation

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Commitment, Success / Failure

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Content: Quotation | Source: WriteWorks | Subjects: Ambition, Commitment

Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom–or some combination of all three?

Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Commitment, Management

People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Commitment, Miscellaneous

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Commitment

stupid with a plan is better than just stupid.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Commitment

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Commitment, Planning