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 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.
fate waiting
It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.
together faces telephones
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
people agendas
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
ideas people mind
Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.
reflection firsts action
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
gratitude jobs numbers
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.
ideas people company
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do.
treasure
We treasure what we can measure.
selfish mean men
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself
ladders higher sad-truth
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
cheerleading believe ambition
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.
different employee unpredictable
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.
data ideas giving
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