Occupation: Professor Birth: March 15, 1943
You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English..
No" is always an easier stand than "Yes..
"Leadership" is a big topic today. We know that the world - nations and communities in addition to companies - needs more and better leaders. So I wa….
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice..
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes..
The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those com….
if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability i….
A great thinker once described innovative thinkers this way: "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and s….
Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible..
Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results..
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 losin….
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..
Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can ….
Sports is a perfect activity in which to see streaks and cycles, organizational and otherwise, in action - and to watch confidence build or erode. Th….
... people are capable of more than their organizational positions ever give them the tools or the time or the opportunity to demonstrate..
If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change..
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. Peo….
Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits..
The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes the pe….
The best way for business to move out of the Hall of Shame is to demonstrate a commitment to social causes. This also makes business sense. A focus o….
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is..