Quotes by Consultants - Page 6

Be addicted to your dream such that it becomes too difficult to wean you from it just like the way drug addicts finds it difficult to stop taking drugs.
Oscar Bimpong
When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.
John Kuypers
When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
If you are open to life’s lessons and do not feed on beliefs and prejudices, you are like a blank sheet of paper on which God writes his messages to you in holy ink.
Dragos Bratasanu
During certain periods of our lives, we may listen to a particular song that touches our hearts so much that we end up repeating the song for the umpteenth time. My question is, how would you know the next song will also touch your heart if you don't allow the playlist to flow? This happens to us in real life; sometimes we get too comfortable with one thing such that we don't allow for other experiences and opportunities.
Oscar Bimpong
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
Max McKeown
The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.
Max McKeown
Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni
Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis—whatever it is—will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.
Lee Ellis
�Communication and a clear mutual understanding between two or more people builds the best route to success in any venture. I don’t expect…* immediate action, * instant perfection, * total comprehension* complete implementation, or * flawless execution. I do expect the best communication and honest effort to create the best plans for the best results while being able to stay on the same page as much as possible. If that concept doesn’t work for you, then you won’t be working with me.
Loren Weisman
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.
Idowu Koyenikan
Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
Idowu Koyenikan
When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.
Idowu Koyenikan
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Stan Slap
To create growth in business, you must control your branding, marketing, and lead generation.
Edwin Dearborn
The choices you make create your future.
Bill Jensen
If you are ready to face the fears, take the steps, do the work, be more than you thought you ever could, and attack the dream, what is keeping you? Lose all the excuses and replace them with all the reasons for success. Be the change for yourself. Commit to the dream or quit. There really is no middle ground.
Loren Weisman
Projects become complex because we try to solve it alone. Use your working relationships to help you problem solve. Your solution may be as easy as asking your online community for help and direction.
Lisa A. Mininni
Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.
Bill Jensen
With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want
Gary Heymann
When we see somebody in a difficult situation, we can understand them only if we had the same experience and had lived through it. Otherwise, we just think we know.
Dragos Bratasanu
Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.
Bill Jensen
The fire in some people is burning and taking them places. Others have their fire dying slowly because their passion is dwindling. For some, the drive that kept them going is lost, and thus, has extinguished that fire that was once ablaze; they are now waiting for the next opportunity to ignite the fire in them one more time.Others are also at the point where the fire which was once in them has been totally quenched by a heavy rain rendering the source of fuel at their disposal void such that rekindling it becomes impossible.Remember, you are the problem and you are the solution to that problem whichever category you find yourself. Don't look anywhere else for answers as you are the answer to your problems. You ought to start to take steps to get back to the ladder where your flames of success will begin to rekindle. It's possible if only you believe.
Oscar Bimpong
Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.
Max McKeown
Your private self must become the same as your public self.
John Kuypers
Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.
Kevin Stirtz
Helping teacher leaders come to understand their gifts is the first step in developing a specialty. Some leaders are great coaches and should focus on instructional leadership in a district or network where that is valued and supported. Great conceptual thinkers are good in startup mode but the daily grind of leading a school doesn't suit them. Other leaders thrive on the turnaround challenge. The dynamic blended future of education will allow more role specialization.
Tom Vander Ark
The fundamental characteristic that enables hidden leadership to bloom is demonstrating integrity.
Scott K. Edinger
With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.
Dragos Bratasanu
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
James C. Collins
It's hard for managers to consider different perspectives if they never ask people what they think.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
Perspective, patience, & trust. One derived from the past, one applied now, and one for the future. Powerful allies for your journey in life.
Gary Rudz
The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
Clay Shirky
Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone.
Dragos Bratasanu
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
Success attracts success to build strong partnerships for more successful ventures whilst failure attracts failure to have more pity parties.
Oscar Bimpong
Our task is not to find love but to remove all blocks that we have built against it.
Dragos Bratasanu
Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.
Dan Roam
Calling for change and being part of making change are two very different things. Stop calling for change and be a part of making the change you want to see.
Loren Weisman
In the field of business, you are a hunter. For sure you will not be successful all the time when you go hunting. However, there is the potential that you can have a bumper harvest one day that can turn your life around. It is better to live an unexpected life than to live a life of expectation. Pursue your dream today.
Oscar Bimpong
Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.
Oli Anderson
I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
John Seddon
The person you fall in love with only holds a mirror for you to see the pieces of yourself that you have lost, given away, or were taken away from you in the process of life.
Dragos Bratasanu
Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
In the lean approach, companies are taught that prices are set by the market and that one way to improve profit margin is to reduce costs. This thinking flies in the face of "cost plus" thinking, where we look first at our own costs and set prices based on our desired profit margin. The reality is that most companies whether manufacturers or hospitals, do not have market power to set prices as they wish.
Mark Graban
When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal needs, we enter the realm of what Frankl called "ultimate meaning." some call it connection to a higher self, to God, to our own spirit, to universal consciousness, to love, to the collective good. No matter what it's called, it is deep meaning and it transforms our lives.
Alex Pattakos
The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
Bill Jensen
Demonstrating integrity is indispensable for leaders.
Scott K. Edinger
Write your goals down. Write your goals on paper and not in your mind. That makes the vision plain. Spend quality time with yourself and review your life.
Oscar Bimpong
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
Roy H. Williams
The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one.
Roy H. Williams
Express Your Appreciation To Your Employees. Do Not Think They Already Know, Cause They Don't
Marieke Stoop
Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.
Loren Weisman
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.
Dale Ludwig
Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.
Oli Anderson
You won't benefit from diverse perspectives if you aren't open to utilizing differences.
Eunice Parisi-Carew