Featured insights Article Strategy & the Fat Smoker By David Maister Much of what professional firms do in the name of strategic planning is a complete waste of time, no more effective than individuals making New Year’s resolutions. The reasons are the same in both situations. Personally and professionally, we already know what we should do: lose weight, give up smoking, exercise more. In business, strategic plans are also stuffed with familiar goals: build client relationships, act like […] Article Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge Article Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration Article Rapid-Fire Fulfillment Article Learning to Lead at Toyota Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” Fujio Cho: “We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes – while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Warren Buffett: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Michael Jordan: “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or walk around it” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Bill Copeland: “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Steve Jobs: “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” WINSTON CHURCHILL: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” STEVE JOBS: “Innovation is saying no to a thousand things” Jack Welch: “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Henry Ford: “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Tom Peters: “The Marketplace is so demanding that we burn the policy manuals and knock off the incessant memo writing; there’s just no time. It also demands we empower everyone to constantly take initiatives. It turns out stories are a – if not the – leadership answer to both issues” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” MARISSA MAYER: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Socrates: “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Bill Copeland: “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” STEVE JOBS: “Innovation is saying no to a thousand things” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” We use cookies to help create a brilliant online experience. 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