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
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Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there
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Companies don't have ideas. Only people do.
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Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
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Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
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I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.
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Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.
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The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.
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Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
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Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
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How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.
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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.
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Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.
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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.