A Quote by Ronald A. Heifetz
What people resist is not change per se, but loss.
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We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.
Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.
The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.
Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.
There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
I don't have an idol per se.
I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.
Profit per se is not my motive.
Comedy has no rules, per se.
I was never a hippy, per se.
I wasn't interested in being an actor per se, but I liked acting, and I liked seeing what people would do.
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
What happens to boys in tech is in many ways different than what happens to girls in tech. it's not that they're facing sexism per se: it's that they don't think it's cool. So I think we really have to change the way we present technology.
