Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Together, Faces, Telephones

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Online, Company

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Opportunity, Stay Focused, Turns

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Art, Class, Engineering

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• Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Poor, Britain, Inventing

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• 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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Leader, Silence

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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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