It is time to euthanize change management.

— Paul Gibbons

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

— Paul Gibbons

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

— 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

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

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 bench presses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.

— Paul Gibbons

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

— Paul Gibbons

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

— Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

— Paul Gibbons

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

— Paul Gibbons