Quotes by Consultants - Page 2

Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.
Idowu Koyenikan
Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.
Eric Lowitt
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
James C. Collins
Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.
Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
Oli Anderson
It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.
Stan Slap
For thousands of years humanity has been trying to answer the question: “Do we have life after death?” Maybe for the first time you must now answer the question: “Do I really have a life before death?
Dragos Bratasanu
When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.
Dragos Bratasanu
Our emotions are like programs that function under the control of the operating system comprising of our beliefs.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
The door to your heart opens inwardly. Only you can open it.
Dragos Bratasanu
Enjoy every day and make each day great
Ron Law
Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.
Bill Jensen
Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?
Roy H. Williams
If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value
Douglas W. Hubbard
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
James C. Collins
Don't cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.
Oli Anderson
A smile and patience are two things that can never be over applied.
Gary Rudz
Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It’s 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?
Bill Jensen
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.
Peter Block
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
Clay Shirky
The kind of legacy you leave will only reflect the kind of life you lived.
Andrena Sawyer
Messenger molecules—known as peptides, which were known to send and register information around the brain—are also in organs throughout your body, including your intestines, stomach, heart, liver, kidneys, and spine. These organs also send and register information.
Marcia Conner
Idealism + Inaction = Depression
Oli Anderson
We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won't be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we are going. It is a strange life, this. Chasing human misery around the planet. We are not the sort of people who go where we say we are going.
Kelsey Hoppe
History rhymes, but geography endures.
Andrew C. Katen
You can start with nothing and still succeed. However, if you don't start you will never succeed.
Oscar Bimpong
Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.
Stan Slap
Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.
Oscar Bimpong
Your choices are where your future begins.
Bill Jensen
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.
Max McKeown
Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.
Tom Rath
The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.
John Kuypers
To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.
Kevin Stirtz
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
Clay Shirky
Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her.
Andrena Sawyer
Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.
Julie Morgenstern
I'm less concerned with how hard you can work and how much time and effort you can dedicate to a project when everything is going right.Plenty of people can do that.I'm more concerned with how hard you can work and how much time and effort you can dedicate to a project when everything is going wrong.That's a rarity and shows true honor, true character and will lead you that much closer to success.
Loren Weisman
Nobody ever washes a rental car.
Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.
When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
Stan Slap
There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.
Linda Fisher Thornton
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Max McKeown
The more you share unconditionally what others most need, the more you will receive what you most want.
Dragos Bratasanu
If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.
Dragos Bratasanu
When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.
Idowu Koyenikan
The reason why we get the same partners is not because people are the same, but because we pull the dark shadow of past hurts over our eyes and we live the same all over again. We change the actors, but never the masks we give them in our play.
Dragos Bratasanu
Whether a chief executive officer (CEO) is applying the practices to build an organizational vision or an employee is helping a colleague resolve a problem, anyone at any organizational level can leverage leadership practices.
Gary DePaul
Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.
Stan Slap
Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.
Gary Westfal
You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.
Stan Slap
Careers are developed one conversation at a time - over time.
Beverly Kaye Julie Winkle Giulioni
Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love.
Dragos Bratasanu
Doubt is a cancerous mindset that kills dreams before it becomes a reality. It destroys your passion and enthusiasm before you take a step. Kill doubt with faith.
Oscar Bimpong
Light is invisible until it strikes an object. So is your love until you share it.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn’t it be easier to just call them conversations? That’s really what they are.
Dale Ludwig
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
Clay Shirky
Aristotle was convinced that a trained memory helped the development of logical thought processes.
Janet M. Tavakoli
You find God by looking within. Looking at the outside world trying to find God is like looking through a telescope at the Moon trying to find atoms and molecules.
Dragos Bratasanu
The more choices you have, the more your values matter.
Michael Schrage