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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Thinking
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.Collection: Fate
Silence is the language of inertia.Collection: Silence
When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.Collection: Real
We treasure what we can measure.Collection: Treasure
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.Collection: Thinking
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.Collection: Reflection
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.Collection: Organization
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.Collection: People
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.Collection: Mother
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.Collection: Different
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.Collection: Wall
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himselfCollection: Selfish
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.Collection: Building