Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan
Margaret Heffernan is an international businesswoman, author, interviewer, and TED speaker. She is currently settled in the UK in the city of Bath...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
development talent company
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
ostriches hands issues
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.
thinking echoes collaboration
A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.
thinking echoes partners
A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?
loyalty ideas people
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
thinking action knows
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
ideas innovation needs
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
believe good-luck trying
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.
itself knows medical profession
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.