Quotes by Consultants - Page 6

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.
Jim Highsmith
The more choices you have, the more your values matter.
Michael Schrage
Trying Will Not Lead Into Actions, You Have To Do It
Marieke Stoop
Happiness Is When Your Heart and Soul Are Walking Hand In Hand
Marieke Stoop
The Essence Of Success Is Leading Your Business & Life From The Heart
Marieke Stoop
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.
Matthew T. Cross
You can rewire your brain and reinvent your life at any age
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!
Gary Patton
Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture” of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus of “the service”. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn't read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others because it’s so boring. Might traditional, so-called-inspired preaching still be the best way to communicate God’s Word?” ~ © gfp '42™
Gary Patton
The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one's church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its support base. Its purpose is to invite people to be part of the true mission of the church. Reception into the church is only a threshold to involvement in its mission. The task of the church is not to accumulate attendees. The church is a school for developing agents of the new creation from among those who are the beneficiaries of God's grace.
Peter L. Steinke
If it comes easy, it will go fast.
Andrena Sawyer
A smile and patience are two things that can never be over applied.
Gary Rudz
Patience is a muscle you need to exercise or you will lose it.
Gary Rudz
In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation. If Evolution were true, we should find literally millions of fossils that show how one kind of life slowly and gradually changed to another kind of life. But missing links are the trade secret, in a sense, of paleontology. The point is, the links are still missing. What we really find are gaps that sharpen up the boundaries between kinds. It's those gaps which provide us with the evidence of Creation of separate kinds. As a matter of fact, there are gaps between each of the major kinds of plants and animals. Transition forms are missing by the millions. What we do find are separate and complex kinds, pointing to Creation.
Gary Parker
You can only achieve GREATNESS when you pursue the things others are not willing to SACRIFICE for.
Oscar Bimpong
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
Idowu Koyenikan
Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for.
Andrena Sawyer
The fire in some people is burning and taking them places. Others have their fire dying slowly because their passion is dwindling. For some, the drive that kept them going is lost, and thus, has extinguished that fire that was once ablaze; they are now waiting for the next opportunity to ignite the fire in them one more time.Others are also at the point where the fire which was once in them has been totally quenched by a heavy rain rendering the source of fuel at their disposal void such that rekindling it becomes impossible.Remember, you are the problem and you are the solution to that problem whichever category you find yourself. Don't look anywhere else for answers as you are the answer to your problems. You ought to start to take steps to get back to the ladder where your flames of success will begin to rekindle. It's possible if only you believe.
Oscar Bimpong
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
Roy H. Williams
The more you share unconditionally what others most need, the more you will receive what you most want.
Dragos Bratasanu
Being in relationship with Jesus, "God, The One and Only", is the single cure for hatred ...the only guarantee of salam or shalom!
Gary Patton
Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!
Gary Patton
Islamo-Fascism is NOT the result of economic deprivation or legitimate blowback because of Western foreign policies or even heinous drone attacks on Muslim civilians. All non-Muslims as Infidels, regardless of their faith or lack of it, are in an ideological war with a demonized, freedom-hating Muslim death-cult rooted in their accurate interpretation of the Qur'an!
Gary Patton
Religious politics is the bent of those who push "The Myth of the Christian Nation" or "Muslim Supremicism" everywhere! ~ © gfp '42™
Gary Patton
Where your attention goes, your time goes
Idowu Koyenikan
Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.
Jim Highsmith
Focus on the objective, execute the process to get there.
Edwin Dearborn
There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.
Stephen Few
Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
Loren Weisman
Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.
Dale Ludwig
When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.
Dale Ludwig
We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.
Dale Ludwig
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Dale Ludwig
Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.
Tomi Ahonen
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.
Dale Ludwig
It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.
Dale Ludwig
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
Dale Ludwig
�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.
Loren Weisman
Great Leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience
Tony Buon
Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
Clay Shirky
The more you engage and connect, the more engagements and connections you will have.
Loren Weisman
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Clay Shirky
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
Clay Shirky
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
Clay Shirky
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
Clay Shirky
Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Idowu Koyenikan
The CIO is that one leader who can see everything that is happening within the organization," says Victor Fetter, CIO of LPL Financial. "The CIO looks at every transaction and every customer service experience that takes place on the digital platform. With that unique perspective, the CIO understand where efficiency is happening and where it is not. The position, at its most basic level, has moved from someone who just accepted the way things were, to someone who uses that visibility to create aha moments for all leaders across the organization.
Martha Heller
If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention
Lisa Borden
It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.
Idowu Koyenikan
We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude.
Chip Bell
If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.
Martha Heller
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.
Peter L. Steinke
To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know without works is dead. The faith that raises awareness, educates the community, advocates, cares for the widows and feeds the orphans. Choose the faith that is compelled to action, but not controlled my anger.
Andrena Sawyer
Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin.
Andrena Sawyer
The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.
Andrena Sawyer
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
Clay Shirky