Margaret Heffernan quotes - page 2

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them. (Margaret Heffernan)
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
Margaret Heffernan
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.
Margaret Heffernan
On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.
Margaret Heffernan
I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.
Margaret Heffernan
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.
Margaret Heffernan
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
Margaret Heffernan
What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.
Margaret Heffernan
Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
Margaret Heffernan
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
Margaret Heffernan
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. (Margaret Heffernan)
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
Margaret Heffernan
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
Margaret Heffernan
Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.
Margaret Heffernan