“Management is to think, ask and do”.
“Bringing the best out of people today requires that you create harmony.”
“Smart is overrated. Talent is overrated. Breeding, Ivy League education, sophistication, wit, eloquence, and good looks – they matter, but they’re all overrated. What really matters is what you do with what you’ve got.”
“When the match between employee and task is wrong, everything that follows, no matter how diligently pursued or fervently desired, suffers.”
“Working hard in the wrong job is like marrying the wrong person: It will involve lots of hard work but few happy days.”
“Disconnections one of the chief causes of substandard work...But it is also one of the most easily corrected.”
“All people look bad when they have chosen the wrong dream.”
“Play is what humans can do and computers can’t. Play is the activity of the mind that allows you to dream up novel approaches, fresh plans.”
“We all bring transference, this simmering kettle of old relationships, with us wherever we go, and it shoots up out of us suddenly without warning.”
“In the absence of connection, fear usually rules. Fear is the great disconnecter. It is rampant in modern organizations.”
“People avoid thinking by being too busy to think.”
“Excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress.”
“If you are managing others, they will perform better if you yourself are happy and show your joy.”
“The manager who can encourage play, who can model imaginative engagement and encourage others to do so, is the manager who brings out the best in...People.”
"The more a manager can help the people who work for him or her to shine, the greater that manager will be and the greater the organization as a whole.”
“Inaction creates devastation. What keeps us from responding to trouble? We deny its existence, we worry instead of acting, and we allow fear to keep us immobile.”
“We aren’t equipped to resolve personal and professional crises...Our parents didn’t show us how, our schools never taught us and our companies don’t train us.”
“Ditch assumptions about life that rarely hold up. We believe there is permanence to our lives that defies the statistics of real life. We think our spouses, jobs and houses...will always be there.”
“Staying frosty means, calmly taking action while freezing out negative emotions of fear, anger and bitterness.”
“Crises don’t obey boundaries. Even when the problem is obvious, there’s value in writing it down because it focuses you on facts rather than emotions.”
"Take off your superwoman or superman cape, skip trying to-do everything, acknowledge what’s wrong, and spend the time and energy to fix it.”
“Leading companies constantly scan for trouble. By spotting looming issues, they neutralize them or position a response.”
“When companies are in trouble, they need single-minded focus to get out of it. They have to be selfish and acting their own self-interest.”
“Crisis survivors survive because they are self-focused –they know who they are, they understand why survival is important to them, they figure out what they need to do to move past the crisis and they do it.
“Like denial, worry...actually serves as a substitute for action. When we worry about a crisis, we feel like we are doing something about it when actually we are not.”
“How often have we learned the harsh lesson that, like unharvested fruit, untended problems turn rotten?”
“When the axe falls, build bridges; don’t burn them.”
“Be extremely honest with yourself. We all make mistakes; just admit it, fix it and move on”
"Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator" - Peter Lynch
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not by attributes………Peter F Drucker
