Quotes by Consultants - Page 9

Good is the enemy of great
Jim Collins
The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
Tom Rath
Loyalty starts with a demonstration of respect and gratitude.
Chip Bell
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
Bill Jensen
Keep the momentum while you are moving to guarantee additional motion and momentum.
Loren Weisman
Learn the rules and learn the game, before you start breaking the rules and changing the game. Your education, experience and understanding of what was and what is, will give you the best foundation to change what will be.
Loren Weisman
A crisis can knock us off balance, making us afraid, vulnerable, and ripe for change. This also happens in our spiritual journey. We have a crisis in our faith that causes us to reconsider. It might frighten us, at least make us vulnerable. If we become bitter or too resistant, we can get very stuck. But if we let the change or crisis touch us, if we live with it and embrace it as difficult as that is, we are more likely to grow and to move eventually to another stage or spiral in our journey [of faith]. When we are most vulnerable, we have the best chance to learn and move along the way. In the midst of pain there is promise.
Janet O. Hagberg
Good decision making is the result of years of experience making and learning from one's choices - good and bad.
Michael J. Marx
Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.
Lee Ellis
People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary
Patrick Lencioni
If your dream is all about winning an ‪#oscar‬, a ‪‎grammy‬, an ‪#emmy‬, or another award, give up and quit now!Why dream for accolades, awards, recognition or celebrity status?Dream to learn, achieve, grow, sustain and succeed.You will be a happier person in life over trying to define your success or your dream by what others think of you.
Loren Weisman
To love is to communicate, and you can communicate only in truth. Speak the truth, and speak it with love.
Dragos Bratasanu
As humans, we unconsciously embrace the group’s beliefs and behaviors without questioning them or surrender to their opinions.
Dragos Bratasanu
Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism.
Sudhir Ahluwalia
Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.
Stan Slap
Yes, we will get hurt. Our hearts will break, and if we are lucky they will break open. When they do, we can begin to experience ourselves, relationships—indeed all of life—in a deeper, richer, and more meaningful way.
Randy Siegel
Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.
Stan Slap
You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.
Bill Jensen
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeown
Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
Tom Rath
If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.
Gary Parker
Dating and hiring have a lot in common.
Scott Wintrip
Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.
Dragos Bratasanu
It’s not about the amount of time you put in, it is the way you spend the time on the work you need to get done. Saying that you worked ten hours on something that went nowhere is not really anything to brag about.
Loren Weisman
What God has for you, is for you. We can move forward with peace and confidence in that.
Andrena Sawyer
Make it easy for your customers to do talk to you.
Kevin Stirtz
I look forward to the day when business is less about being busy and more about being of service. When Houses of Cards, become Houses of Hearts. We can no longer afford to squander our passion on cold economics. It is time to reclaim our most valuable commodity and devote it to what’s right. Devote it to concern & creation. To meaningful encounters & purpose-bound experiences. May we no longer do business, but build places of thriving instead; ruled by one truth only ~ the wisdom of our hearts.
Ina Catrinescu
The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.
Max McKeown
An idea that's BOLD is worthless until SOLD!
Don The Idea Guy Snyder
There are no perfect leaders.
Max McKeown
To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.
Scott K. Edinger
If a lion cub thinks it is a kitten, it will grow up catching mice.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
Your Mind is an asset that is a foundation upon which resources are built. Resources will come and go but a Mindset built on success will always attract the needed resources.
Oscar Bimpong
Affirming others isn’t ‘flattering’ them—it’s when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!
Lee Ellis
The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.
Loren Weisman
Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
Bill Jensen
To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.
Bill Jensen
At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.
Tony Buon
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
Bill Jensen
The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.
Idowu Koyenikan
It takes courage to do aid work but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.
Kelsey Hoppe
Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is happening is not what we wanted. pg 155
John Kuypers
Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!
Gary Patton
A leader who is confused about the route sows doubt.
Oscar Bimpong
The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with.
Dragos Bratasanu
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**(emphasis by author)[2002] p.25f
Gary Hamel
At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.
Loren Weisman
Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don’t have clarity.
Lee Ellis
Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.
Oli Anderson
It's all about energy
Dr. Wanda Bonet-Gascot
In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.
Dragos Bratasanu
A good strategy with a bad implementation is a bad strategy
Gary Hamel
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Tom Peters
I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only opportunity to make tomorrow a success.
Oscar Bimpong
The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?
Stan Slap
But here's the rub: looking across silos for opportunities to improve capabilities is one thing; creating a vision for how to seize those opportunities as another. Communicating that vision effectively is harder still. But the real work, the deepest work, is in the deciding to stick your neck out in the first place.
Martha Heller
Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.
Eric Allenbaugh
It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.
Idowu Koyenikan