Quotes by Leadership Consultants

The more deference there is, the narrower the band of judgements on which organisations rely. Deference acts like the fatty deposits that build up in arteries, restricting the flow of fresh, oxygen-enriched blood across the system.

But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These "significant changes" do not occur automatically. In fact, they must often fight against our resistance. In this sense, midlife is a drama more worthy of a playwright than a scholar. We are characters in the play, caught at the opening of the second act, and we do not know what will happen next.

Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

In changing times, question everything you take for granted.

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:freely exchangeable currency.

In the second half of life, our old compasses no longer work. The magnetic fields alter. The new compass that we need cannot be held in our hand, only in our heart. We read it not with our mind alone, but with our soul. Now we yearn for wholeness. We yearn to remember the parts of ourselves that we have forgotten, to nourish those that we have starved, to express those we have silenced, and to bring into the light those we have cast into the shadows. On this quest for wholeness, we must let go of cliches of adult life, both positive and negative . . . Using the best information available , each of us must find his own way. To varying degrees, all of us are trying to break out of . . . the "life structure" that we have built during the first part of our lives.

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money. Focus instead, on where you invest your time.