Author: Margaret Heffernan

Quotes

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

- Margaret Heffernan

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

- Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

- 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.

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

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

- Margaret Heffernan

If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.

If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.

- Margaret Heffernan

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

- 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.

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 use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

- Margaret Heffernan

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