Quotes by Consultants - Page 16

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.
Scott K. Edinger
Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem...
Max McKeown
Just as only one discordant note has the power to disturb an entire symphony, the accordance between a body and its soul can be a broken by only one discordant event. To ensure and maintain an optimal fit, one must deliberately and continuously choreograph the equilibrium of the body, mind, and soul.
Ina Catrinescu
A straightforward answer to a straightforward question will move you that much more forward in this world, that much faster.
Loren Weisman
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
James P. Lewis
Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are allborn, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death andmaking sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.
Oli Anderson
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
Marilyn Howshall
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni
Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.
Frank Navran
Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it’s finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or “finishing the drill” in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
Lee Ellis
Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children’s children.
Bill Jensen
Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.
Stan Slap
All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings. Lord, help us to choose perseverance over the easy way out.
Andrena Sawyer
A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.
Stan Slap
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
Roy H. Williams
The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully
Kevin Mitnick
There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
Idowu Koyenikan
Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.
Stan Slap
Future strong is as focused on the success of every individual as it is on organizational success — creating an environment where people can achieve their dreams and full potential.
Bill Jensen
Stop to appreciate the moments. Summed up, they are the bricks of our soul.
Gary Rudz
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
James C. Collins
The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.
David G. Jones
Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.
Stan Slap
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Stan Slap
Success is for those that presses on when they see a wall, find ways around a road block and consistently push boundaries and conquer territories against all odds.
Oscar Bimpong
Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.
Linda Fisher Thornton
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Stan Slap
Either be a good parent to your career or just give your dream up for adoption.
Loren Weisman
A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present.
Michael J. Marx
What Africa lacks is not lack of resources or talent but the lack of strategic leadership.
Oscar Bimpong
... all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46
Gary Hamel