Margaret Heffernan Quotes

• How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

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• Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

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• Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient – there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

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• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that – every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

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• As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they’re grateful and sometimes they aren’t.

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• All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.

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• A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.

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• A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

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• Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

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• What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

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• The truth won’t set us free – until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

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• The medical profession is – and knows itself to be – endemically conservative and conformist.

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• The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

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• The cell phone has become the adult’s transitional object, replacing the toddler’s teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

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• The best remote companies I’ve seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

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• Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

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• One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

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• Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

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• Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

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• Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they’re trying to solve.

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Margaret Heffernan (53)

Birth:	1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businesswoman, Writer

About

Margaret Heffernan is an international businesswoman and writer. Born in Texas, raised in the Netherlands, educated at Cambridge University and now settled in the UK near the city of Bath. She is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bath's School of Management and a Visiting Professor at Simmons College School of Management.

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