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 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” 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” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” 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” 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.” Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” 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” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” 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.” Kobe Bryant: “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Theo Gold: “You cannot become stronger without resistance” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Socrates: “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” 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
