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As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning
— Margaret Heffernan
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
— Margaret Heffernan
The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
— Kevin Heffernan
Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.
— Margaret Heffernan
If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.
— Virginia Heffernan
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
— Margaret Heffernan
Indeed, there seems to be some evidence not only that all love is based on illusion - but that love positively requires illusion in order to endure.
— Margaret Heffernan
As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.
— Margaret Heffernan
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
— Margaret Heffernan
Silence is the language of inertia.
— Margaret Heffernan
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
— Margaret Heffernan
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
— Margaret Heffernan
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
— Margaret Heffernan
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
— Margaret Heffernan
Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
— Margaret Heffernan
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
— Margaret Heffernan
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
— Margaret Heffernan
A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.
— Margaret Heffernan
The only consequence of their (employee) silence is that the blind (employer) lead the blind.
— Margaret Heffernan
Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
— Margaret Heffernan
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
— 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
You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.
— Margaret Heffernan
Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19
— Margaret Heffernan
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
— Margaret Heffernan
Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.
— Margaret Heffernan
There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.
— Margaret Heffernan
Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.
— Margaret Heffernan
It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore.
— Margaret Heffernan
When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.
— Margaret Heffernan
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
— Margaret Heffernan
As I sat alone at the computer hour after hour it seemed I was learning "computers." In fact, I was learning culture.
— Virginia Heffernan
We treasure what we can measure.
— Margaret Heffernan
It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
— Kevin Heffernan
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
— Margaret Heffernan
Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When
— Margaret Heffernan
If it's ever fair to say that anything has "changed everything," it's fair to say so about the Internet.
— Virginia Heffernan
Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
— 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
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
— Margaret Heffernan
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
— Margaret Heffernan
When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
— Margaret Heffernan
thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But
— Margaret Heffernan
We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
— Margaret Heffernan
I went to law school after college.
— Kevin Heffernan
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
— Margaret Heffernan
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
— Margaret Heffernan
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[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.
— Margaret Heffernan
In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.
— Margaret Heffernan
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
— Margaret Heffernan
When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.
— Kevin Heffernan
It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.
— Kevin Heffernan
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
— Margaret Heffernan
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
— Margaret Heffernan
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
— Margaret Heffernan
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.
— Virginia Heffernan
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
— Margaret Heffernan
A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber ... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?
— Margaret Heffernan
If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
— Margaret Heffernan