 Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. Topics: Business |
| Power is the ability to get things done. |
| Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. |
| One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door. |
| The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row. |
| A great idea is not enough. |
| Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try. |
| To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. |
| I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks. |
| The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. |
| Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. |
| Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter. |
| A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. |
| I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. |
| The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction. |
| "No" is always an easier stand than "Yes. |
| The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc. |
| I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. |
| Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist. |
| Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore. |
