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 Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” 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” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in harmony” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” 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.” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Michael Dell: “Don’t be afraid to fail. Get out there and experiment and learn and fail and get a rate based on the experiences you have. Go for it and when you go for it you’ll learn what you’re capable of, what the potential is, where the opportunities are, but you can’t be afraid to fail because that’s when you learn” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today” DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” WINSTON CHURCHILL: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” MARISSA MAYER: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Benjamin Franklin: “Well done is better than well said” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” 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.” Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” 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” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” 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” WINSTON CHURCHILL: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” We use cookies to help create a brilliant online experience. By continuing to use our website you accept that cookies may be stored on your device. It's standard stuff, but if you'd like to know more click Cookie Settings.I ACCEPTClose
