“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

Nov 23, 2018 | Friday Quotes

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”
– Socrates

Many times in these Friday quotes I’ve focused on change because it is truly the only constant to business. Focusing on forward challenges and learning opportunities yield positive outcomes. Safety processes need that attention: Safety Professionals deliver it. Embrace change not as a challenge to your authority, experience, education and ego: it’s an opportunity to improve and be better than the day before.

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I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Organizations, like people, are not infallible. To succeed requires diligence and, in some cases, grit. Safety integrated into the organization requires understanding the end user and how it will be used. Misses will happen: improve from each one.

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