The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

Chapter 5: Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking 101

iii) Thoughts worth thinking

‘He that will not apply new

remedies must accept new

evils – for time is the greatest

innovator.’ Francis Bacon

‘DARING IDEAS ARE LIKE CHESSMEN

moved forward.

THEY MAY BE BEATEN,BUT THEY MAY START A

winning game.’Goethe

‘Experience has shown and a true philosophy will

always show that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of

truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.’

Edgar Allan Poe