(33 quotes found)
“Happiness is not the absence of pain. There is no such thing as a pain-free life. In fact emotional pain is a useful life tool that alerts you to a mismatch between your values and your environment”
Med Yones
“Happiness is an Open mind. Beware of your stereotypes and prejudices, they can trap you in a box and make you miss what life has to offer you”
“A continuous supply of high performance executive talent is probably the only sustainable competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. [On Leadership as Strategic Competitive Advantage]”
“There is a need for an integrated system, which includes best practices, tools and processes, to ensure succession planning and performance development of the management talent pipeline at all managerial levels, not only at the CEO level. [On Board Governance]”
“Companies that fall short on managing leadership succession and development end up facing performance challenges due to market changes and talent attrition. Those firms will be forced to hire untested external talent or promote internal staff with an inadequate skill set [On Succession Planning]”
“The current executive education models do not bridge the critical knowledge-implementation gap. There is a need for a more effective and efficient training model that not only develops the general managerial knowledge, but also directly works on solving company-specific business problems and delivers actionable solutions [ On Executive Education Best Practices]”
“Leadership is the most important competitive advantage of a company, not technology, finance, operations or anything else. Leadership formulates the company's business strategy and builds its resources, including its people, finances and operations. [On Leadership Development]”
“Even fast-growing and profitable companies can develop bad internal politics and unproductive work habits that will eventually lead to declining performance. [On Workplace Politics]”
“When management tends to focus so much on one management area, e.g., sales, and has no time to manage the internal organization challenges, dysfunction creeps in and takes hold. [On Dysfunctional Organization]”
“The best way the U.S. Government can implement a new change effectively and efficiently is to adopt the private-sector management best practices [On Economic Reforms].”
