Quotes by Consultants - Page 2

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Clay Shirky

Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.

Marcia Conner

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.

Oscar Bimpong

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

Oli Anderson

Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.

Douglas W. Hubbard

Everything you want in life is a relationship away.

Idowu Koyenikan

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

Eric Lowitt

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Chris Maser

Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

Oli Anderson

Analyzing everyday situations using a systematic approach similar to that utilized by physicians when investigating a medical mysteries can result in better choices.

Dr. Russ Hill

Your heart doesn't care about being easy. Your heart only cares about what's true for you.

Dragos Bratasanu

�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

Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game. Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.

Loren Weisman

There is only one way to make your dream a reality: make the decision and then not change it.

Dragos Bratasanu

Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

Loren Weisman

You are worthy. Don’t be lazy.

Dragos Bratasanu

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

H. James Harrington

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

When we see somebody in a difficult situation, we can understand them only if we had the same experience and had lived through it. Otherwise, we just think we know.

Dragos Bratasanu

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.

David G. Jones

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

Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?

Roy H. Williams

You must love yourself before you can love others.

Dr. Asoka Jinadasa

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

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

Stan Slap

Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.

Dragos Bratasanu

When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full.

Dragos Bratasanu

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Idowu Koyenikan

The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.

Sudhir Ahluwalia

Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.

Bill Jensen

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

If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves

Adam Kahane

The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.

Kevin Stirtz

Many things are impossible for men to do alone, but everything is possible with God. Regardless of how big your errors might have been, you will find forgiveness when you truly seek for it.

Dragos Bratasanu

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

Clay Shirky

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

Stan Slap

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 to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

Stan Slap

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring

Patrick Lencioni

The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.

Roy H. Williams

Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.

Stephen Few

Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained and retrieved hundreds of new Chinese kanji, to the astonished delight of Chinese nobles.

Janet M. Tavakoli

It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.

Julie A. Fast

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

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

Idowu Koyenikan

Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.

Bill Jensen

No quality or characteristic is more important than trust

Patrick Lencioni

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

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

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

Clay Shirky

To be slightly evil is to embrace life.

Venkatesh G. Rao

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

There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.

Linda Fisher Thornton

The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

Tom Rath

Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.

Oli Anderson

I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.

Andrena Sawyer

Everyone has a right to a strong and independent future: All of us have the right, and personal obligation, to choose whether or not company-driven hardships and sacrifices, overall, are shackling or strengthening our future. And to keep that right, each of us must be our own best advocate.

Bill Jensen

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary

Patrick Lencioni

Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.

Idowu Koyenikan

Previous 1 2 3 4 Next