Quotes by Consultants - Page 5

There are no perfect leaders.
Max McKeown
The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
Gary Patton
Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.
Scott K. Edinger
Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.
Alan Willett
Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don’t do.
Shawn Casemore
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Max McKeown
Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.
John Stahl-Wert
Whatever you do, be sure to do it well.
Andrena Sawyer
In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.
Mark Graban
The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real.
Clay Shirky
Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.
Paul Axtell
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
Peter Block
A genius in the wrong position could look like a fool.
Idowu Koyenikan
I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
John Seddon
Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.
Linda Fisher Thornton
Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
Linda Fisher Thornton
Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.
Scott K. Edinger
Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.
Michael J. Marx
The Bible will guide you. It will be a light unto your path.
Michael J. Marx
The Christian coach keeps ethics in perspective by aligning his principles and values with his biblical worldview, endeavoring to see things from God's point of view.
Michael J. Marx
Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit brings peace to your mind and heart as you uncover and make the right choice and align yourself with professional, ethical standards.
Michael J. Marx
A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.
Michael J. Marx
Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.
Brian Lawley
Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.
Jim Highsmith
Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Dating and hiring have a lot in common.
Scott Wintrip
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
Clay Shirky
Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.
Andrena Sawyer
Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proximity.
Gary Rudz
Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.
Oscar Bimpong
The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success. Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.
Loren Weisman
Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
Clay Shirky
God, unlike His creation, is always proactive and never reactive.
Andrena Sawyer
Helping teacher leaders come to understand their gifts is the first step in developing a specialty. Some leaders are great coaches and should focus on instructional leadership in a district or network where that is valued and supported. Great conceptual thinkers are good in startup mode but the daily grind of leading a school doesn't suit them. Other leaders thrive on the turnaround challenge. The dynamic blended future of education will allow more role specialization.
Tom Vander Ark
Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.
John Stahl-Wert
Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.
John Stahl-Wert
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
Tom Peters
Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
When you have a Job, it means someone has placed a limitation of TIME on you. Meaning every aspect of your life is controlled. It becomes stressing when you are at the bottom of the Career Ladder.
Oscar Bimpong
LIFE PLAN FOR YOUR DREAMPlan A - Apply for a job and use it to Finance Your dream.Plan B - Borrow Other People's Money (OPM) to Finance your dream if you don't want the job route.Plan C - Consider working full time and pursue your dream part-time.Plan D - Diligently work on your dream until it overtakes your job.Plan E - Effect a paradigm shift by making your dream full time and your job part time.Plan F - F means time to Fire your boss.
Oscar Bimpong
Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.
Julie Morgenstern
A life without a VISION is a like a man who can see but does not know where he is going. That is what I call psychological blindness. Eyes wide open but does not know his destination.
Oscar Bimpong
Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.
Brian Lawley
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...
Clay Shirky
The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.
Stephen Few
The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully
Kevin Mitnick
As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?
Shawn Casemore
All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system.
Peter L. Steinke
A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.
John Stahl-Wert
Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.
Kevin Stirtz
Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
Oli Anderson
Ego is the ultimate killer on a team
Patrick Lencioni
Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.
Oscar Bimpong
One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way..
Andrena Sawyer
In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.
Jim Highsmith
Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.
Jim Highsmith