Quotes by Consultants - Page 14

To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.
Gary Rudz
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
Stan Slap
The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.
Idowu Koyenikan
You get greatness out of people by expecting it.
John Stahl-Wert
A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
Idowu Koyenikan
One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way..
Andrena Sawyer
Sometimes “Good bye” is just another way of saying “I love you
Dragos Bratasanu
Issues or fears of confrontation tend to showcase unhealthy and unprofessional communication. If you are trusting someone to tell you all the good, bad and ugly, but they only give you the good out of their fears and confrontational issues… the bad and the ugly can grow worse and worse quickly.
Loren Weisman
The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220
John Kuypers
You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong?
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.
Dale Ludwig
An empty mind is like a mirror that reflects reality in minute detail.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Women have always been spies.
Harriet Rubin
Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.
John Kuypers
When Mohamed Ali started calling himself, "I'm the Greatest", he wasn't actually the greatest. This means that you don't need to be successful before you can talk about success or you don't need to be wealthy before you can talk about wealth creation.Saying positive things on your dreams is the first step of experiencing success in real life.
Oscar Bimpong
Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
Clay Shirky
Live boldly now. Later may not be an option.
Andrena Sawyer
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.
Max McKeown
Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.
Peter Koestenbaum
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.
Oli Anderson
The practice of mindfulness is one of the most powerful reset buttons we have. When we learn how to slow down internally, we begin to see our habitual reactive patterns. We start to understand how fear, even on subtle levels, may dictate our choices around our work.
Maia Duerr
When you have everything in life, you have friends, when you have nothing, you have true friends. The fact that somebody is close to you does mean they are your friend. Be wise!
Oscar Bimpong
True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.
Stan Slap
In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.
Marcia Conner
Bible is a window into the life and practices of the people who lived in Israel and bordering nations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Judea.
Sudhir Ahluwalia
If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention
Lisa Borden
The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.
Tom Rath
The circulation of money is like the sharing of cake. The one that holds the knife controls the portion you get.
Oscar Bimpong
When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction rooted in early religious upbringing. Sometimes it arises from a contemporary image of the Church as authoritarian, chauvinistic, hypocritical, or unforgiving in nature. Though thirsting spiritually for a relationship, some find it too threatening or the prospects too unsatisfying to have to return to a painful image or experience associated with God and the religious realm. This group ay actually scorn the Church because it is not intellectually acceptable to live with a reality that can only be accepted on faith. "To believe in something non-verifiable,' they say, 'is to be weak in one's thin
Janet O. Hagberg
The future is personal.
Bill Jensen
If you don't start, you're finished.
Max McKeown
As is often the case with children, the rule of ‘monkey see, monkey do’ plays out in the workplace. It’s hard to be good role model, and it’s one of the greatest challenges of leadership.
Lee Ellis
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
Clay Shirky
In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation. If Evolution were true, we should find literally millions of fossils that show how one kind of life slowly and gradually changed to another kind of life. But missing links are the trade secret, in a sense, of paleontology. The point is, the links are still missing. What we really find are gaps that sharpen up the boundaries between kinds. It's those gaps which provide us with the evidence of Creation of separate kinds. As a matter of fact, there are gaps between each of the major kinds of plants and animals. Transition forms are missing by the millions. What we do find are separate and complex kinds, pointing to Creation.
Gary Parker
...Think of it as 'Right Livelihood 2.0'... In addition to not causing harm to yourself or another, this is livelihood that is an expression of your Core Intention, work that you can fall in love with and that no longer feels like “work”: work that matters.
Maia Duerr
You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.
Tony Buon
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Stan Slap
Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.
Alan Willett
Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
It turns out that up to 35 percent of people with bipolar disorder also have ADHD.
Julie A. Fast
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
The best foundation anyone can build in life is a mindset that is unwavering when the storm rages.
Oscar Bimpong
Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.
Stan Slap
If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.
Oli Anderson
Seek not outside yourself for love, because what you are looking for is what you really are.
Dragos Bratasanu
Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
Peter Block
Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.
Patrick Lencioni
Meetings are at the heart of an effective organization, and each meeting is an opportunity to clarify issues, set new directions, sharpen focus, create alignment, and move objectives forward.
Paul Axtell
conflict is productive
Patrick Lencioni
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
Chris Maser
The downside of attending to the emotional life of groups is that it can swamp the ability to get anything done; a group can become more concerned with satisfying its members than with achieving its goals. Bion identified several ways that groups can slide into pure emotion - they can become "groups for pairing off," in which members are mainly interested in forming romantic couples or discussing those who form them; they can become dedicated to venerating something, continually praising the object of their affection (fan groups often have this characteristic, be they Harry Potter readers or followers of the Arsenal soccer team), or they can focus too much on real or perceived external threats. Bion trenchantly observed that because external enemies are such spurs to group solidarity, some groups will anoint paranoid leaders because such people are expert at identifying external threats, thus generating pleasurable group solidarity even when the threats aren't real.
Clay Shirky
People need to feel safe to be who they are—to speak up when they have an idea, or to speak out when they feel something isn't right.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
Most people accept living unhappy lives because it is the only way they know, they refuse to be open to the new emerging possibilities and refuse to make positive changes. Because they are afraid of being outside their own comfort zone and don’t risk anything, they live lives that are far less fulfilling than they could actually have.
Dragos Bratasanu
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.
Idowu Koyenikan
The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking.
Loren Weisman
We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.
Marcia Conner
The holiest place on Earth, is not a temple or a church, but our relationship to one another.
Dragos Bratasanu
Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Try not to see it as an invitation to compete.
Andrena Sawyer