Tag: patience

  • Complexity: Growth Idea #653

    Have you ever needed to work with a complex person or situation? It can be hard to do, and it can be hard to understand how a person thinks. A couple of tips on how to manage this: first of all, expect some people to be quirky or complex, and know that you don’t need…

  • Avoid Complaining: Idea #193

    ‘Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always. Drop a boulder in front of a stream and the water will simply flow around it, taking whatever opening the landscape will give or—when nothing is offered—patiently building up its resources until it rises to a height where a new gap is found. Flow like water. Never…

  • Characteristics #2: Idea #176

    Leaders need to embody patience, kindness, and goodness in their professional development. Patience is maintaining calmness during stress and showing empathy, avoiding annoyance or agitation. Kindness entails being genuinely kind to all, irrespective of differences, assisting and showing benevolence to everyone. Goodness is doing the right thing, being honest, moral, honorable, virtuous, and being full…