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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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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As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning
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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.
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Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
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We treasure what we can measure.
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One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
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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.
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Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.
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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.