Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 2

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Development, Talent, Company

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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

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  Real, Facts, Achieve

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

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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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• 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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Reflection, Firsts, Action

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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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Leaving, Want, Hassle

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• As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

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  Mother, Grateful, Hard Work

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

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• Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sleep, Email, Waking

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

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

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• I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Hate, People, Listening

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

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• Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, Ideas, Giving

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• What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

  Margaret Heffernan

  People, Able, Want

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