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Leadership starts as an inside job. First, you need to:- Clarify your beliefs and values
- Focus your message
- Find your courage
Then it's an outside job. Speak up. Take action. Influence and inspire others with your words and actions.
— Paul B. ThorntonAuthor: Paul B. Thornton | Subject: Leadership
The best managers and leaders help people become more independent, more capable, and more confident.
— Paul B. ThorntonAuthor: Paul B. Thornton | Subjects: Leadership, Management
If you want to quit because you want to do something else or it’s not for you anymore, that’s a good reason. People aren’t going to work at your company forever. But if you’re quitting because the environment is driving you crazy, as CEO that’s something I can control and shape.
— Steve El-HageAuthor: Steve El-Hage | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Organizational Behavior
Be very thoughtful about who’s in the interview loop, and make sure everybody in the loop has veto power. If you don’t care what somebody thinks, don’t put them on the panel. And if you do care what they think, make sure that you empower them to have responsibility in the process.
— Steve El-HageAuthor: Steve El-Hage | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources
The key differentiator of leaders for me is whether they are selfless or self-centered. Do they see the people who work for them simply as assets to help them achieve their own goals, or do they consider it their responsibility to help their team grow and develop? [...] To be clear, I’m not suggesting business leaders are entirely selfless. They are not volunteers, and many … [ Read more ]
— Adam BryantAuthor: Adam Bryant | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Leadership
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In principle, patents open up innovations in two ways. First, they confer only temporary rights; once patents expire or are abandoned, the intellectual property they are designed to protect passes into the public domain. Second, they require the details of the invention to be disclosed so they can be replicated. This permits follow-on innovation, which is essential for industrial progress. More recently, as the patent system … [ Read more ]
— The EconomistAs for the genius of innovation, clearly the one percent spark of inspiration is nurtured by a positive culture. But the 99 percent perspiration ingredient comes from employees who love what they do, as well as where they do it, and who invest in that Holy Grail of productivity called “discretionary … [ Read more ]
— Stephanie Quappe, David Samso Aparici, Jon WarshawskyMoney never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. ReillyIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no … [ Read more ]
— Theodore RooseveltThe uncomfortable fact for many green marketers--and targets of that marketing--is that genuinely going green would mean giving up most of the products and services that clutter our consumer culture. It would mean simplifying, valuing time and people over stuff. How can most products avoid the sin of the hidden trade-off? With a simple label: "You don't really need this."
— David Roberts