651 Posts Found

Win the heart and the mind will follow. The mind (logical left brain) can always find logic to justify what the heart (intuitive right brain) has already decided.

Content: Quotation | Source: How to Measure the Strength of a Brand | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Persuasion

Too often the business world can identify a successful approach only when it sees it. The random odds of success or failure are as significant as their strategies. It’s not unusual for a company to hire bright 29-year-old McKinsey consultants and ignore the knowledge and expertise of its own 29-year-old employees.

Content: Quotation | Source: Workforce Management | Subjects: Knowledge, Organizational Behavior

“Everything happens for a reason” is no reason not to ask myself if I am living it right.

Content: Quotation | Source: FinanceProfessor.com | Subjects: Personal Development, Wisdom

The great Western Disease lies in the phrase, “I will be happy when…”

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Achievement, Wisdom

What matters is not whom you know but how you are known to them.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Reputation

Fundamental academic knowledge becomes more useful in new or changing environments, when managers are faced with the unexpected or the unknown. It provides alternative frames for looking at problems rather than solutions to them.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

Once someone is good at something, they tend to spend all their time doing that. This kind of focus is very valuable, actually. Much of the skill of experts is the ability to ignore false trails. But focus has drawbacks: you don’t learn from other fields, and when a new approach arrives, you may be the last to notice.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Expertise, Skills

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Knowledge, Learning

Leaders teach. Teaching and leading are distinguishable occupations, but every great leader teaches–and every great teacher is leading.

Content: Quotation | Source: Help Desk Institute Austin | Subjects: Leadership, Teaching

When this [Web 2.0] model allows many new ideas, then the cost of solving problems and of generating content will go down. It also means the cost and the need for filtering will go up. You will need to filter not only for what’s good versus what’s bad but also for what fits your strategy. Not every idea will work given your asset base, your … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Knowledge, Problems / Solutions, Trends / Analysis

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Intelligence, Knowledge

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Content: Quotation | Source: 800-CEO-READ (8CR) | Subjects: Ability, Potential

Possibility is only a word about bringing forth out of nothingness something we desire to become present, but possibility may be the most powerful word in our language because it enables us to visualize and strive for a future that is not available to us in the present. Possibility is like a time warp, allowing one to escape from the limits our past into an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Ability, Future

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Future, Life

There is no surer way of putting problems across than to present them in a form as close as possible to that in which they actually occur, and the greater vividness and realism thereby secured will stimulate the ensuing thinking and discussion.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Problems / Solutions

When companies and creators talk about design today, their focus tends to be on new product development. Such a focus, however, generally leads to increasing complexity, higher operating costs and higher risk of failure, creating a vicious spiral that drives customers away and destroys shareholder value.

Process and service innovations do just the opposite, by creating a virtuous circle — attracting and retaining customers by improving … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Design, Innovation

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Decision Making, Future

Bureaucracies tend to promote people who know how to do a job; infocracies will promote people who have a thirst for learning and are willing to let go of yesterday’s “knowledge” in the fact of today’s data.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Knowledge

Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Creativity, Thought

People tend to overvalue advice when the problem they’re addressing is hard and to undervalue it when the problem is easy.

Another advice-related bias I’ve found compels people to overvalue advice that they pay for.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Decision Making, Thought