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 Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” 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” Winston Churchill: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” 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” 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” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” 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.” 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” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” George Halas: “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it” Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in harmony” Dave Waters: “Deep learning will revolutionize supply chain automation” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” John Wooden: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Henry Ford: “Coming together is the beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” Marissa Mayer: “Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter” Taiichi Ohno: “Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Henry Ford: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” 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” Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Pat Summitt: “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before” 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
