Brandon Ives

We need to worry more about overconfidence than we do incompetence in leaders. Incompetent people make lots of mistakes but are rarely in places of influence.

Incompetence irritates me, but overconfidence scares me. And we should be worried by the fact that we live in a culture that actually likes and rewards overconfidence in its leaders.

We think that, in times of crisis, we need daring and bold leadership from charismatic leaders, and we don't - we need humility ... the ability and willingness to listen to others as a learner.

-Malcolm Gladwell, Catalyst Conference, Atlanta, October 2009

Labels: Leadership, Quotes

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved. It is no one's fault if they do not so love it ... You might as well ask people to like the taste of rotten bread or the sound of a mechanical drill. We can be forgiven, and pitied, and loved in spite of it, with Charity; no other way. All who have good parents, wives, husbands, or children, may be sure that at some times -- and perhaps at all times in respect of some one particular trait or habit -- they are receiving Charity, are loved not because they are lovable but because Love Himself [Christ] is in those who love them.

- C.S. Lewis, from his book, The Four Loves

Labels: C. S. Lewis, Quotes, The Four Loves