Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
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.
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.
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?
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.
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.
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
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.
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
Silence is the language of inertia.
When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
We treasure what we can measure.
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
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.
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
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.
What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
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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