Max De Pree Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

• In addition to all of the ratios and goals and parameters and bottom lines, it is fundamental that leaders endorse a concept of persons. This begins with an understanding of the diversity of people's gifts and talents and skills. Recognizing diversity gives us the chance to provide meaning, fulfillment and purpose, which are not to be relegated solely to private life any more than such things as love, beauty and joy. The art of leadership lies in polishing and liberating and enabling those gifts.

  Max De Pree

  Art, Lying, Love Is

• The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

  Max De Pree

  Simple, People, Diversity

• A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

  Max De Pree

  Unique, Whales, Diversity

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

• When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.

  Max De Pree

  Thinking, Together We Can, People

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

• Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

  Max De Pree

  Trusting Each Other, Diversity, Understanding

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

• Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

  Max De Pree

  Thinking, Diversity, Understanding

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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