Learning Culture Quotes

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Learning some of the names and countries of my subscribers and what life is like for them is really cool.

In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a great substitute for costly offsite workshops and conferences.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

All leaders are permanent learners.

Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.

Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients.

You expect success, you respect failure.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.

The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.