Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 2

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• Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Needs, May, Way

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• Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, People, Misuse

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• If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Risk

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• Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sea, Dysfunction, Air

  Margaret Heffernan (2014). “A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition”, p.13, PublicAffairs

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• I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Action, Knows

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• A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Echoes, Partners

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• Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Bullying, Boss, Promise

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• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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• One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ladders, Higher, Sad Truth

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• I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Phones, Want

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• It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Fate, Waiting

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Silence is the language of inertia.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Silence, Language, Inertia

  Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Real, Facts, Achieve

  Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• We treasure what we can measure.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Treasure

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• If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Conflict, Ifs

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• Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Reflection, Firsts, Action

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• Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Organization, Issues, People

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• Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  People, Agendas

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• In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mother, Father, Cutting

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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• Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Wall, Cubicles, Noise

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

  Margaret Heffernan

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Building, Stamina, Building A Business

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• I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself.
  But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing
  in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient
  condition for making it come true.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Cheerleading, Believe, Ambition

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• British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Art, Class, Engineering

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