Quotes by Consultants - Page 12

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.
Stan Slap
You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.
Tom Rath
Time is the great healer. No matter how difficult the circumstances that cross our path, it takes time for our emotions, minds and spirit to process what’s happened. Rushing to make choices too quickly can send us down the wrong fork in the road. It’s normal and natural to feel overwhelmed, out of sorts and confused when a major change knocks on our door. While you may be forced to make some choices quickly, delay as many choices as possible until time has worked its magic. When you feel on solid ground again, you will be ready to make better choices about the future.
Don Shapiro
Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.
Loren Weisman
Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow
Don Tapscott
You can use your experience and success in your organisation to start your own business
Oscar Bimpong
Success is when everything that goes wrong, fits in your plan.
Gary Rudz
Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.
Oli Anderson
Poverty is a mindset: It creates that sense of scarcity. You then become accustomed to it such that your life is hinged on protecting the scarce resources that you have. However, you can only create a mindset of abundance by investing what you have and not savings. Savings only becomes significant if it's done with a motive to invest.
Oscar Bimpong
People will always tell you what they think you should or should not do. But your life is only between you and God. If you have doubts whether what you’re doing is right or wrong, before you make any decision, look up and ask God. You will always know the answer.
Dragos Bratasanu
Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.
Stan Slap
Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.
Oli Anderson
Success Is Hidden Behind All The Things You " Must" Do
Marieke Stoop
Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.
Gary L. Graybill
Those who do not think bout the future cannot have one.
Michael J. Kami
It's time to consider: What are the toughest choices you face as you lead yourself and others into the future?
Bill Jensen
Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.
Idowu Koyenikan
A positive Mindset attracts Success like a magnet and a negative one loves to marry failure, procrastination and comfortable environment that sobs in mediocrity and impossibility.
Oscar Bimpong
Leaders must be good listeners. It’s rule number one, and it’s the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.
Lee Ellis
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process.
Max McKeown
Where you are coming from doesn't matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.
Oscar Bimpong
Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.
Oli Anderson
Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.
Ernest Barbaric
The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring
Patrick Lencioni
Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.
Bill Jensen
You live, work and lead others in the most exciting time, ever! Are you strong enough?
Bill Jensen
Your past is handing you a tool you can use to leap into your future: the crucible moments from your own life. The power you need is in looking back to look forward.
Bill Jensen
In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
Trying Will Not Lead Into Actions, You Have To Do It
Marieke Stoop
Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.
Stephen Few
67% of all shoppers intend to return home with the item they are shopping for, but that only 24% actually do so.
Roy H. Williams
[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
Clay Shirky
n the pursuit of dreams, your unshakable commitment is the only force more powerful than your thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Commitment will pull you towards the fulfilment of your idea even when you doubt yourself.
Dragos Bratasanu
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Stan Slap
Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.
Max McKeown
When you do what's important now for you, you create a past that leaves you ready to handle the present. By default, the future is taking care of itself as you make decisions that are acceptable to you no matter what happens tomorrow.
John Kuypers
All relationship systems become anxious. People put together and inevitably anxiety will arise. Anxiety can be infectious. We can give it to others or catch it from them. What precisely triggers anxiety is unique to each system. Common Activators are significant changes and losses. They upset the stable patterns and balance of the system.
Peter L. Steinke
The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.
Roy H. Williams
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
Stan Slap
Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming
Pam Henderson
We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.
Idowu Koyenikan
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual’s right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
Bill Jensen
...while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time...is people.
Mark Salsbury
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
Stan Slap
Having a system for thinking deeper can provide greater insight into solving everyday problem. Such a system is shared in my book, Medical Investigation 101.
Dr. Russ Hill
You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious
Paul R. Niven
No quality or characteristic is more important than trust
Patrick Lencioni
Marry your offline and online systems. So when you meet someone in person, make sure to connect with them online, too!
Lisa A. Mininni
Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.
Bill Jensen
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.
Dale Ludwig
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today this hour this minute is the day the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.
Robert R. Updegraff
Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!
Gary Patton
Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.
Mark Goulston
It's not everyone that likes RnB, Hippop or Hiplife. However, each of them has their fans. Meaning not everyone will like you as a person, your ideologies or your business.But if you persist and strategically position yourself, then you will attract a segment of the market that loves everything about you.
Oscar Bimpong
Many are of the mindset that a door will open for them one day. That is great, but what if no door opens for you in quite a long time?Do you continue to wait, or find an alternative?My answer to you is learn to create your own door. By so doing, you will create a future for yourself, and thus you can have control over your life and be the driver of your destiny.
Oscar Bimpong
In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.
Marcia Conner
Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.
Max McKeown
Trust in Jesus, wholeheartedly. Don't try to figure things out yourself. Just be intimate with Him!
Gary Patton