You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed. (Charles Handy)

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present. (Charles Handy)

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. (Charles Handy)

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything. (Charles Handy)

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. (Charles Handy)

The world by and large has to be reinvented. (Charles Handy)

The organization which treats people as assets can behave differently then the organization which treats people as costs. (Charles Handy)

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. (Charles Handy)

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be. (Charles Handy)

The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can’t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured […]