Source: Dave Snowden in a post on LinkedIn.If you want to make any real difference then stop making lists of idealised qualities of how things should be — they will always end up as anodyne platitudes — focus on understanding and critically ACTING in the present to start shifting things in a better direction
Credit: Dave Snowden
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