Quotes by Consultants - Page 10

Your PAST is not your FUTURE. It's just a reference to your future. Your Future is yet to be explored so don't replay your past especially the bad experiences in your anticipated future.
Oscar Bimpong
The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.
Idowu Koyenikan
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
Idowu Koyenikan
Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.
Idowu Koyenikan
Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.
Oscar Bimpong
You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.
Oscar Bimpong
Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a road block and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds.
Oscar Bimpong
We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?
Gary R. Ryan
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.
Max McKeown
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...
Max McKeown
Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.
Russell L. Ackoff
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
Max McKeown
If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
Max McKeown
The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.
Max McKeown
If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
Max McKeown
Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist - and finding a solution - or seeing what does not yet exist - and finding an opportunity.
Max McKeown
Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
Max McKeown
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
Max McKeown
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
Max McKeown
The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
Max McKeown
There are two types of limitations: those others place on us, and those we place on ourselves. One is more subtle. Both are equally dangerous.
Andrena Sawyer
To beat the competition and succeed in today's competitive market, you should be abreast with the change in the marketplace not forgetting about incorporating creativity and innovation as a lifestyle.
Oscar Bimpong
Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
Oli Anderson
An idea that's BOLD is worthless until SOLD!
Don The Idea Guy Snyder
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
James C. Collins
Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.
Max McKeown
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision.[first-line bold by author][2002] p.23
Gary Hamel
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46
Gary Hamel
Define your destiny and drive with abandon!
Gary Westfal
Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door opens for you in quite a long time?Do you continue to wait, or find an alternative?My answer to you is learn to create your own door. By so doing, you will create a future for yourself, and thus you can have control over your life and be the driver of your destiny.
Oscar Bimpong
Sometimes, sleepers turn up as common people who do everyday things, and create a new destiny for themselves when nobody’s watching.
Dragos Bratasanu
The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
John Kuypers
...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102
John Kuypers
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.
John Kuypers
We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155
John Kuypers
When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.
John Kuypers
You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
John Kuypers
When you are present, you are not needy.
John Kuypers
Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
John Kuypers
You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.
Idowu Koyenikan
Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.
Idowu Koyenikan
Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.
Idowu Koyenikan
What if you knew before you were born that love will not be a given? If you learned that rejection would be the blueprint for your entire life? If you were the one calling the shots, would you still choose to be born?
Ina Catrinescu
A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry
Glenn Aparicio Parry
All we've got is Now. Life, composed of a billion moments, from our first to our last thoughts.
Max McKeown
Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal opportunity, not just for professionals and experts but for anyone who wants it. This opportunity can work on scales and over duration that were previously unimaginable. Unlike personal or communal value, public value requires not just new opportunities for old motivations; it requires governance, which is to say ways of discouraging or preventing people from wrecking either the process or the product of the group.
Clay Shirky
[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.
Clay Shirky
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
Clay Shirky
[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
Clay Shirky
[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.
Clay Shirky
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Clay Shirky
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
Clay Shirky
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
Clay Shirky
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
James C. Collins
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
Clay Shirky