Featured insights Article Rapid-Fire Fulfillment By Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. Lewis and Jose A.D. Machuca, From the HBR November 2004 Issue When a German wholesaler […] Article Strategy & the Fat Smoker Article How Managers Drive Results and Employee Engagement at the Same Time Article Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge Article Cracking the Code of Sustained Collaboration Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Planning is everything. the plan is nothing” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” Jeff Daly: "Two monologues do not make a dialogue" Mark Hurd: "AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success" Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” 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” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” Robert Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Mark Hurd: "AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success" Jeff Daly: "Two monologues do not make a dialogue" Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” 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” Leo Tolstoy: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” Bill Gates: “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” Winston Churchill: “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning” 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” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” W. Edwards Deming: “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion” Dale Carnegie: "If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested" Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” Bob Parsons: “Anything that is measured and watched, improves” Morihei Ueshiba: "Life Is Growth. If We Stop Growing, Technically And Spiritually, We Are As Good As Dead" Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Sam Walton: “The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best but legendary” Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities” Wade Boggs: “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results” Charles Darwin: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change” Morihei Ueshiba: "Life Is Growth. If We Stop Growing, Technically And Spiritually, We Are As Good As Dead" Buddha: “The mind is everything. What you think you become” Henry Ford: “If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere” Peter Drucker: “Accept the fact that we will have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer” 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” Socrates: “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” Jeff Bezos: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room” Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” 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” Caterina Fake: “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard” W. 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