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Any fool can buy talent only real leaders develop it.

Margaret Heffernan

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Margaret Heffernan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
Businessperson
Writer
Texas
United States
Real
Develop
Leaders
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Companies don't have ideas only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.
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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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In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.
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Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
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Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
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We treasure what we can measure.
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We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.
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Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.
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In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
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Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
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Silence is the language of inertia.
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Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
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It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
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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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You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.
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[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.
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I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
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Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
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