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
thinking people misuse
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.
thinking conflict ifs
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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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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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.
absolutely believing condition leadership necessary stretch
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.
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A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.