Eric Polite II 🚢

I help leaders (and organizations) learn, grow, and change into the best versions of themselves.

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.”

– Aung Sang Suu Kyi

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”

– Aristotle

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.”

– Daniel Kahneman

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play a strange trick on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes.”

– Muhammad Yunus

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only a moment… for my long walk is not yet ended.”

– Nelson Mandela

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“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

– Cesar Chavez

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.”

– Dorothy Day

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Pathfinder, there is no path. You must make the path as you walk.”

– Antonio Machado

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Transformation requires constant learning and growth. A learning organization is dedicated to continually enhancing its ability to create its desired future.”

– Peter Senge

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Strategy is how we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want. Strategy is intentional — a pathway that we shape by making a series of choices about how to use resources in the present to achieve goals in the future.”

– Marshall Ganz

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Much of what we call ‘resistance’ comes about in response to the inattention or unskillful actions of those leading change.”

– Robert Gass

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

– Anais Nin

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Not knowing is true knowing. One knows truly only when one has the wisdom of emptiness. Wisdom is then limitless.”

– Master Sheng-Yen

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance."

— Peter Drucker

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“ We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“I don’t care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have. If you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”

– Zig Ziglar

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.”

– Aung Sang Suu Kyi

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”

– Aristotle

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.”

– Daniel Kahneman

[Eric Polite II 🚢 @ericpolite2]

“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play a strange trick on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes.”

– Muhammad Yunus