Teaching how to long…

Spotted at Chris Corrigan:

If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for
the endless immensity of the sea.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/04/06.html#a1757; comments are here.

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Tagged as: leadership, metaphors