Quotes by Consultants - Page 2

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
Stan Slap
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
Stan Slap
Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.
Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
Stan Slap
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Stan Slap
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
Stan Slap
Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.
Stan Slap
What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.
Stan Slap
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
Stan Slap
What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.
Stan Slap
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
Stan Slap
A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.
Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.
Stan Slap
The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.
Stan Slap
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Stan Slap
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Stan Slap
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Stan Slap
Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
Gary L. Graybill
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
Stan Slap
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Stan Slap
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Stan Slap
When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Stan Slap
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
Stan Slap
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
Stan Slap
True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.
Stan Slap
The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.
Stan Slap
When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.
Stan Slap
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Stan Slap
Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.
Stan Slap
The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.
Stan Slap
Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.
Stan Slap
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Stan Slap
The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.
Stan Slap
The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.
Scott K. Edinger
At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.
Oscar Bimpong
Developing leaders without a model is like building a house without a plan.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.
Gary DePaul
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
Stan Slap
Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.
Dan Roam
PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.
Gerald M. Weinberg
In almost 25 years of experience as a high school guidance counselor, a regional college representative, and a private college counselor, I have noted the kinds of things that make the college process productive, successful, and enjoyable. I have worked with so many students who have blossomed in part due to their college search and application process. It can be a period of maturation and of self-exploration, with an honest assessment of skills and interests, development of task organization and discipline, renewed intrafamily communication, and travel to interesting cities and small college towns. I firmly believe when the journey to college is fully embraced, it can truly be loved.
Jill Madenberg
During certain periods of our lives, we may listen to a particular song that touches our hearts so much that we end up repeating the song for the umpteenth time. My question is, how would you know the next song will also touch your heart if you don't allow the playlist to flow? This happens to us in real life; sometimes we get too comfortable with one thing such that we don't allow for other experiences and opportunities.
Oscar Bimpong
The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.
Roy H. Williams
An empty mind is like a mirror that reflects reality in minute detail.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won't be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we are going. It is a strange life, this. Chasing human misery around the planet. We are not the sort of people who go where we say we are going.
Kelsey Hoppe
There are certain life lessons that you can only learn in the struggle.
Idowu Koyenikan
Nobody ever washes a rental car.
Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
Don't just DO something. Stand there! (and get perspective and understanding)
Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.
Martha Heller
Successful commitment occurs when your stated intentions are stronger than your hidden intentions, or when you consciously reconcile the conflict.
Brian P. Moran
Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in
Patrick Lencioni
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
Rick Aster
No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.
Andrena Sawyer
People will doubt your VISION for obvious reasons. However, the worse thing that can happen to any man is to doubt his own vision.
Oscar Bimpong
At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.
Tony Buon
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
Kevin Stirtz
Every AWAKENING starts with a WORD. Speak positive things into your life.
Oscar Bimpong