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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Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

Paul Gibbons

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Paul Gibbons

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.

Paul Gibbons

Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

Paul Gibbons

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

Paul Gibbons

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.

Paul Gibbons

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Paul Gibbons

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Paul Gibbons

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Paul Gibbons

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Paul Gibbons

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

Paul Gibbons

Author Bio

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