Quotes by Paul Gibbons

About Paul Gibbons:

Paul Kendall Gibbons is a retired pole vaulter from New Zealand. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the qualifying round with no official mark. Gibbons set his personal best (5.51 metres) in 1992 and equalled it in 1997.
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Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

Paul Gibbons

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Paul Gibbons

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Paul Gibbons

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

Paul Gibbons

A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

Paul Gibbons

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Paul Gibbons

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

Paul Gibbons

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Paul Gibbons

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

Paul Gibbons

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Paul Gibbons

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Paul Gibbons

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning.

Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Paul Gibbons

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Paul Gibbons

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

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It is time to euthanize change management.

Paul Gibbons

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

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Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

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Author Bio

  • NamePaul Gibbons
  • DescriptionNew Zealand pole vaulter
  • BornJune 25, 1971
  • CountryNew Zealand