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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Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
thinking phones lessons
I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.
thinking conflict get-real
We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.
thinking silence leader
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.
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If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.
thinking online company
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
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?
thinking action knows
I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
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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.