Quotes by Consultants - Page 4

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary
Patrick Lencioni
The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring
Patrick Lencioni
The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?
Clay Shirky
Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.
Clay Shirky
It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
Messenger molecules—known as peptides, which were known to send and register information around the brain—are also in organs throughout your body, including your intestines, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, and spine. These organs also send and register information.
Marcia Conner
Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.
Marcia Conner
Dreaming is good but dreaming without action makes you a dreamer. Stop dreaming and start acting. That is the only way to take your mental picture to a reality series that can lead to a successful venture.
Oscar Bimpong
Make it easy for your customers to do talk to you.
Kevin Stirtz
You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.
Tom Rath
The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
Tom Rath
What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.
Tom Rath
It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.
Julie A. Fast
Every year thousands of dogs are abandoned to shelters because of behavior problems. And these are things that can be corrected with just basic training. Dogs are being killed because of lack of training, and that's what the Canine Good Citizen program is all about. (Mary Burch, AKC)
Martin Kihn
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Tom Peters
You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong?
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
The best foundation anyone can build in life is a mindset that is unwavering when the storm rages.
Oscar Bimpong
Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working.
Ben Linders
The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.
Andrena Sawyer
Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.
Oscar Bimpong
Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.
Janet M. Tavakoli
Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow
Don Tapscott
An unrecorded goal is only a wish.
Paul R. Timm
Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.
Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
Cats are true carnivores. While you may choose a vegetarian lifestyle, don't assume it's healthier for your cat also. Cats aren't able to convert beta-carotene into vitamin A the way we can. They must get vitamin A from animal tissue (called preformed A). Cats are also unable to convert linoleic acid (an essential fatty acid) to arachidonic acid the way dogs can so they must get preformed arachidonic acid from its only source—animal tissue.
Pam Johnson-Bennett
What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.
Michael Peshkam
Your actions and approach with what you have, will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more.
Loren Weisman
Where you are coming from doesn't matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.
Oscar Bimpong
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.
Peter Block
Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier.
Andrena Sawyer
Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.
Max McKeown
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Max McKeown
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Max McKeown
Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities designed to be invoked by known parties in pre-determined contexts. Of course, we don't mean that all push approaches are software programs - we are using this as a broader metaphor to describe one way of organizing activities and resources. Think of thick process manuals in most enterprises or standardized curricula in most primary and secondary educational institutions, not to mention the programming of network television, and you will see that institutions heavily rely on programs of many types to deliver resources in pre-determined contexts.Pull approaches, in contrast, tend to be implemented on "platforms" designed to flexibly accommodate diverse providers and consumers of resources. These platforms are much more open-ended and designed to evolve based on the learning and changing needs of the participants. Once again, we do not mean to use platforms in the literal sense of a tangible foundation, but in a broader, metaphorical sense to describe frameworks for orchestrating a set of resources that can be configured quickly and easily to serve a broad range of needs. Think of Expedia's travel service or the emergency ward of a hospital and you will see the contrast with the hard-wired push programs.
John Hagel III
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Max McKeown
The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.
Scott K. Edinger
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
John Kuypers
When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.
John Kuypers
To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
John Kuypers
When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.
John Kuypers
When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
John Kuypers
A leader who is confused about the route sows doubt.
Oscar Bimpong
Stop the continual thinking of anticipated challenges and start thinking of solutions. Solutions take you to the next level whilst thinking of challenges with no solutions makes you stay at the same level or at worse takes you a step backwards.
Oscar Bimpong
Your private self must become the same as your public self.
John Kuypers
The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.
John Kuypers
Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.
John Kuypers
Your identity & life passion/purpose in the context of your beliefs determine your vision, your vision determines your mission, your mission determines your KRAs, your KRAs determine your goals, your goals determine your thoughts, and your thoughts determine your life!” ~ gfp '42©
Gary Patton
There is one thing setting a goal and one thing acting on it and another achieving it.
Oscar Bimpong
Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
Walt reorganized the fickleness of audiences and the challenge of always providing something new. For me, this great entrepreneurial adventure was an exposure to 'yes if' consulting as a more useful format than 'no because'...'Yes if' was the language of an enabler, pointing to what needed to be done to make the possible plausible. Walt liked this language. 'No because' is the language of a deal killer. 'Yes if' is the approach of a deal maker. Creative people thrive on 'yes if'.
Harrison Price
The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.
Ernesto Sirolli
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
James C. Collins
How can you fly? I mean you have wings. Feathers. Did you know you have wings?
Sally Painter
Darkness is the natural state of the universe. Light, fleeting, comforting as it may be, may stretch to the very edges of all we know. Yet once it is gone, the darkness always remains.
Mark T. Barnes
Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.
Max McKeown
Strategic execution always solves problems
Edwin Dearborn
But here's the rub: looking across silos for opportunities to improve capabilities is one thing; creating a vision for how to seize those opportunities as another. Communicating that vision effectively is harder still. But the real work, the deepest work, is in the deciding to stick your neck out in the first place.
Martha Heller
You cannot influence minds by making them feel comfortable. Influence should provoke the comfortable lifestyle into an uncomfortable situation where opportunities lie.
Oscar Bimpong
Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way,” Indris drawled. “I’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind
Mark T. Barnes