Leading Thoughts for August 28, 2025

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

Luc de Brabandere on changing twice:

“If you want to change, you have to change twice. You not only need to change the reality of your situation, you also need to change perception of this reality.”

Source: The Forgotten Half of Change: Achieving Greater Creativity through Changes in Perception

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Nido Qubein on bureaucracy:

“There is a tendency in any organization for it to become self-serving. The larger the organization grows and the older it is, the stronger this tendency expresses itself and becomes this kind of inertia, a growing gravitational field if you will, that pulls everything into its orbit. Whatever its stated goals or original mission may have been, the organization’s everyday purpose becomes more and more about the perpetuation of the organization itself. This is the essence of the term bureaucracy.”

Source: Extraordinary Transformation: An Entrepreneurial Blueprint for Leaders Who Seek Transformational Growth in Any Organization

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