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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure.
— Andy Grove

Author: Andrew S. Grove | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Success / Failure

You can tell people that you’re not going to punish them for making small mistakes, but they’ll never believe you until they see it. Celebrate teams that make sensible, calculated moves, including moves that don’t work. And compensate them in the same way you do with teams that happen to be successful.
— Charles Conn

Author: Charles Conn | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

When AI handles the analytical grunt work—such as research, drafting, debugging, and problem decomposition—that junior employees have traditionally performed and learned from, they miss out on the formative repetitions that build judgment. Several leaders noted that a person cannot develop discernment without first doing the work. The reinforcing cycle of de-skilling is already visible, as one leader described, “Less hands-on practice feeds into less ownership, … [ Read more ]
— Sagar Goel, David Martin, Charikleia Kaffe

Authors: Charikleia Kaffe, David Martin, Sagar Goel | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Human Resources, IT / Technology / E-Business, Training & Development

Whenever we're trying to change something, we have a customer. It may be an actual customer or client, it may be a consumer, it may be a boss, it may be an organization. The more we put them in the center, and the more we understand where they are and what their challenge is, the more effective we're going to be.
— Jonah Berger

Author: Jonah Berger | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Change Management, Organizational Behavior

Whenever we're trying to change something, we have a customer. It may be an actual customer or client, it may be a consumer, it may be a boss, it may be an organization. The more we put them in the center, and the more we understand where they are and what their challenge is, the more effective we're going to be.
— Jonah Berger

Author: Jonah Berger | Source: MarketingProfs | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership, Personal Development

Most Popular Business Quotations

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 Economist

As 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 Warshawsky

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.
— William J. Reilly

It 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 Roosevelt

The 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

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