QUOTATION 74
ALBERT EINSTEIN ON WHY YOU SHOULD FIGHT AUTHORITY
Use this to remind you of the need to overturn the status quo when necessary.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was probably the best known scientist of the twentieth century. As a scientist he recognised that progress could be achieved only by challenging current orthodoxies which were upheld by those institutions and individuals that had a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. It is for this reason that he said:
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
It is in challenging the status quo and trying out new ideas that great managers are created. I’ve used an example of a change in what follows as most disputes are about changing ...
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