Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 2

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• As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

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  Issues, Long, Invisible

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• The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

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  Development, Talent, Company

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• All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Gratitude, Jobs, Numbers

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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.

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  Thinking, People, Misuse

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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.

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  Sea, Dysfunction, Air

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

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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.

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  Inspiration, Creativity, Risk

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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

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  Thinking, Conflict, Ifs

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

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  Reflection, Firsts, Action

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

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  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.

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  Silence, Language, Inertia

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

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• We treasure what we can measure.

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  Treasure

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

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  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.

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  People, Agendas

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• I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

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  Thinking, Online, Company

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• In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

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  Opportunity, Stay Focused, Turns

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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.

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  Different, Employee, Unpredictable

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

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  Wall, Cubicles, Noise

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

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• The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

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  Together, Faces, Telephones

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

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  Building, Stamina, Building A Business

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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

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  Selfish, Mean, Men

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