Quotes by Consultants - Page 5

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...
Max McKeown
CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.
Martha Heller
Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are.
Dragos Bratasanu
Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?
Marieke Stoop
People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.
Clay Shirky
Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.
Vahan Zanoyan
Learning, empowering, studying, practicing, and not repeating the same mistakes will help you move forward, move up, and move on to where you want to be.
Loren Weisman
If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.
Martha Heller
To be slightly evil is to embrace life.
Venkatesh G. Rao
Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
Bill Jensen
The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became
Donald G. Reinertsen
Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one!
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.
Max McKeown
If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?
Loren Weisman
An unrecorded goal is only a wish.
Paul R. Timm
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Stan Slap
Leadership is all about energy
Dr. Wanda Bonet-Gascot
Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences…if you aren’t learning from them.
Loren Weisman
The Secret to Focusing on your Dream is to touch it every single day of your life.
Oscar Bimpong
Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what’s best for the project.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
There is no better way to find out the true heart, honor, and professionalism of a person, than seeing how they handle themselves and others when facing a crisis, disaster or intense level of pressure.
Loren Weisman
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.
Matthew T. Cross
People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.
Bill Jensen
There is one thing setting a goal and one thing acting on it and another achieving it.
Oscar Bimpong
The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,” the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.
Loren Weisman
Your actions and approach with what you have, will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more.
Loren Weisman
The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.
Bill Jensen
What you do for others, God will do for you.
Dragos Bratasanu
Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.
Bill Jensen
Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.
Clay Shirky
Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,
Karen Wardamasky Bobrow
To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
John Kuypers
People who just float around in life without any direction will tell you that your dreams are not possible. Their knowledge is the perfect mirror of their results. Logic makes perfect sense.
Dragos Bratasanu
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
Kim H. Krisco
Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities designed to be invoked by known parties in pre-determined contexts. Of course, we don't mean that all push approaches are software programs - we are using this as a broader metaphor to describe one way of organizing activities and resources. Think of thick process manuals in most enterprises or standardized curricula in most primary and secondary educational institutions, not to mention the programming of network television, and you will see that institutions heavily rely on programs of many types to deliver resources in pre-determined contexts.Pull approaches, in contrast, tend to be implemented on "platforms" designed to flexibly accommodate diverse providers and consumers of resources. These platforms are much more open-ended and designed to evolve based on the learning and changing needs of the participants. Once again, we do not mean to use platforms in the literal sense of a tangible foundation, but in a broader, metaphorical sense to describe frameworks for orchestrating a set of resources that can be configured quickly and easily to serve a broad range of needs. Think of Expedia's travel service or the emergency ward of a hospital and you will see the contrast with the hard-wired push programs.
John Hagel III
Somewhere along the line, Made in China began to sound like a bargain. (...) When an importer told a retail buyer that an item was quoted at 65¢ and made in the USA, the buyer figured it could be purchased somewhere cheaper. When the same product was quoted at 65¢ and was said to have been made in China the buyer figured it could not be found for any less.
Paul Midler
I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.
Andrena Sawyer
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
Clay Shirky
...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.
James C. Collins
Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.
Stan Slap
The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.
John Seddon
The search for meaning in our lives takes us on paths large and small. When we go beyond ourselves-whether in forgiveness, unselfishness, thoughtfulness, generosity and understanding toward others-we enter into the spiritual realm of meaning. By giving beyond ourselves, we make our own lives richer. This is a truth long understood at the heart of all meaningful spiritual traditions. It's a mystery that can only be experienced. And when we do experience it, we are in the heart of meaning. We are no longer a prisoner of our thoughts.
Alex Pattakos
Define your destiny and drive with abandon!
Gary Westfal
Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.
Mark Graban
Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.
Oli Anderson
Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.
Jim Highsmith
Branding is about everything.
Tom Peters
With every dream and with every love, you will have to die and be reborn, to leave the known behind and surrender to the mystery.
Dragos Bratasanu
LIFE PLAN FOR YOUR DREAMPlan A - Apply for a job and use it to Finance Your dream.Plan B - Borrow Other People's Money (OPM) to Finance your dream if you don't want the job route.Plan C - Consider working full time and pursue your dream part-time.Plan D - Diligently work on your dream until it overtakes your job.Plan E - Effect a paradigm shift by making your dream full time and your job part time.Plan F - F means time to Fire your boss.
Oscar Bimpong
Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier.
Andrena Sawyer
The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.
Oli Anderson
Religion and God have nothing in common. If you focus on what people did in the past, you lose what God can do for you in the present. When you focus on Spirit, you find love because you know you belong. Focus on Love.
Dragos Bratasanu
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.
Kevin Stirtz
All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.
Dragos Bratasanu
No one creates a perfect resume on their first try.
Matthew T. Cross
Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves
Adam Kahane
What if you knew before you were born that love will not be a given? If you learned that rejection would be the blueprint for your entire life? If you were the one calling the shots, would you still choose to be born?
Ina Catrinescu
Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.
Kevin Stirtz
Your commitment shakes the very foundation of this universe. (from The Amazing You movie)
Dragos Bratasanu