Alain Dehaze Quotes

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.