Margaret Heffernan Quotes - Page 3

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Art, Class, Engineering

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Poor, Britain, Inventing

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

  Margaret Heffernan

  Sleep, Email, Waking

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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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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