“ We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. Paul Gibbons
“ Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows. Paul Gibbons
“ Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money. 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
“ Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed. Paul Gibbons
“ The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational. Paul Gibbons
“ When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century. 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 benchpresses 100 kilos the fir… Paul Gibbons
“ Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it. Paul Gibbons
“ A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox! Paul Gibbons
“ The storm through which you sail, called life, has no calm eye. There never is a “right time” for your big dreams. You never will, by magic, get an extra twenty hours a week when you can do that thing… Paul Gibbons
