Quotes by Consultants - Page 13

Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.
Brian Lawley
When it comes to purpose and preparation, most of us want to skip the preparation part and get right to purpose, which is why we don't always get to truly enjoy and walk in our purpose. Don't despise the discomfort in preparation. It's the set-up for a firm foundation. Preparation ultimately ensures that we don't squander purpose.
Andrena Sawyer
The Essence Of Success Is Leading Your Business & Life From The Heart
Marieke Stoop
In almost 25 years of experience as a high school guidance counselor, a regional college representative, and a private college counselor, I have noted the kinds of things that make the college process productive, successful, and enjoyable. I have worked with so many students who have blossomed in part due to their college search and application process. It can be a period of maturation and of self-exploration, with an honest assessment of skills and interests, development of task organization and discipline, renewed intrafamily communication, and travel to interesting cities and small college towns. I firmly believe when the journey to college is fully embraced, it can truly be loved.
Jill Madenberg
See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.
Oli Anderson
Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
Someone once told me that, when your operations are not good, you should not talk strategy," says Iyer. "Fair enough. But the opposite is also true. If operations are good, then you must talk strategy.
Martha Heller
This world is your world but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.
Oli Anderson
Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes
Tony Buon
Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.
Stan Slap
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
Tom Peters
In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working.
Ben Linders
Even if it's not appreciated, do your best. Integrity will take you further than acknowledgement.
Andrena Sawyer
There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.
Idowu Koyenikan
An extended hand is the best weapon against a clenched fist.
Gary Rudz
Good leaders know who they are—their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.
Lee Ellis
Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Believe in your dreams. Your passion will show you the way
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.
John Kuypers
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
Idowu Koyenikan
Your PAST is not your FUTURE. It's just a reference to your future. Your Future is yet to be explored so don't replay your past especially the bad experiences in your anticipated future.
Oscar Bimpong
Happiness Is When Your Heart and Soul Are Walking Hand In Hand
Marieke Stoop
If you're tired, if you're in pain, if you're worried or afraid - you're human. Remember that Superman is not your patron Saint. Be kind to you.
Dragos Bratasanu
If any of us ever re-worried abot a request, Mom would say, "If you think you can handle it better than God, it´s coming out."Just the suggestion that we thought we were more powerful than God put us in out places and made us stop fretting and start believing.
Mary Lou Quinlan
You have no idea how destructive and wasteful your infrastructure is because you don't need to use it the way the workforce does... Drive the forklift, use the database, fill out the form, submit it to HR, and find out how long it takes to get a response. Use your own infrastructure.
Bill Jensen
We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.
John Mariotti
Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.
Max McKeown
Your idea, talent, experience and certificates are not enough. What is needed is a strong passion for driving your idea, talent, experience and your certificates to success.
Oscar Bimpong
You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.
Mark Graban
Fear is not the end. But only a transition.
Dragos Bratasanu
When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.
John Kuypers
If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.
Gary T. Smith
Love is the gateway to cosmic energy and wisdom.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?
Shawn Casemore
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.
Clay Shirky
To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.
Stephen Few
The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Stan Slap
When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.
Tom Rath
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
Max McKeown
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
Idowu Koyenikan
To become fit requires discomfort, to earn a significant income requires discomfort, to become great at anything, requires you to pay the price. ..To become great, you must choose to allocate your time to your greatest opportunities. You will have to choose to spend time on the difficult things that create your biggest payoffs. To be great you will need to live with intention. That will require you to be clear on what matters most, and then to have the courage to say no to things that distract you.
Brian P. Moran
Future strong is letting go of what no longer serves you. Quickly.
Bill Jensen
...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102
John Kuypers
If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.
Jim Highsmith
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
H. James Harrington
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
James C. Collins
Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.
Scott K. Edinger
A business that is not growing after all, is dying.
Shawn Casemore
Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don’t do.
Shawn Casemore
Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way,” Indris drawled. “I’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind
Mark T. Barnes
The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.
Sudhir Ahluwalia
At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).
Oli Anderson
Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.
Marcia Conner
In pursuit of your Purpose, don't miss the plot by concentrating on making money. Rather focus on helping people by presenting solutions to their problems for it is a guaranteed route to making money in the future.
Oscar Bimpong
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Stan Slap
Mangers consolidate the present. Leaders create the future.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
The only way to heal is to help others heal, and the only way to find love and keep love in our lives is to give it to others.
Dragos Bratasanu
Changing the external conditions of your lives - earn more money, be in a better physical shape, have another partner or travel more - will not change how you feel. It never works because the emptiness is not around, is within. The only way to come back to life is to acknowledge that little voice rising from your heart and begging you to return to love, to return to truth.
Dragos Bratasanu