Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.
T. S. Eliot
I’ve decided to create an occasional series of posts around some of my favorite quotations and these will be characterised by no opening picture and a suitably enigmatic banner picture. I intend them to be short posts and they will therefore act as markers between more substantial, but maybe less meaningful or useful, posts and allow me to keep up a near-daily blogging cycle. I may from time to time explain why I chose the banner picture, but not this time. Quotes also act as linguistic aporia so I am also storing them on the Cynefin wiki for the common good. To a degree, a good quote would speak for itself but I plan to offer some reflections on each one. Today’s quote I use a lot and for good reason. I recently tweeted it as a possible reason “why people adopt SAFe, 6 etc.” and it was much retweeted.
There are many and various ways in which organisations, and leaders in particular can fall foul of this quotation,
Acknowledgments
The banner picture is cropped from The Triumph of Death by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The portrait of T S Eliot is used from a vintage snapshot picture in the National Portrait Gallery London and used under the terms of a Creative Commons License
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