Harvard Business Review Quotes

“When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.”
― Onyi Anyado

“You need to choose your association according to your vision.”
― Onyi Anyado

“What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.”
― Onyi Anyado

“A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.”
― Onyi Anyado

“Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.”
― Keith Ferrazzi

“You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.”
― Onyi Anyado

“You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.”
― Eric C. Sinoway

“The critical task for management in each revolutionary period is to find a new set of organizational practices that will become the basis for managing the next period of evolutionary growth. Interestingly enough, those new practices eventually sow the seeds of their own decay and lead to another period of revolution. Managers, therefore, experience the irony of seeing a major solution in one period become a major problem in a later period.”
― Larry Greiner

“Entrepreneur, you don't need 20 years of experience in your industry but rather, you do need an idea that will bring disruption over the next 20 plus years. ~”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, design thinking is the ability to create, portray and deliver tomorrow's distinction, today. ~”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.”
― W. Chan Kim

“It can be dangerous to be right at the outset. Managers in some LCD-first companies interpreted the pivot point as an unconditional endorsement of everything they had been doing. As a result, they failed to recognize the need to rethink some details of their technology, such as the importance of color displays, and their complacency helped former plasma companies pull ahead.”
― J. P. Eggers

“Marketing leaders instead must ask, “What values and goals guide our brand strategy, what capabilities drive marketing excellence, and what structures and ways of working will support them?” Structure must follow strategy—not the other way around.”
― Marc de Swaan Arons

“Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work–life balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life’s work—holistically seeking both success and satisfaction.”
― Eric C. Sinoway

“Entrepreneur, do you know you can actually start up before you start up?”
― Onyi Anyado

“Entrepreneur, Vincent Van Gogh had no accredited training in art but yet his distinction is generational.”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, so they questioned your vision, laughed at your vision, mocked, scoffed and even criticised your vision? Do you know very soon, the same people will applaud, be in awe of, support and actually buy into your vision? ~”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.”
― Onyi Anyado

“Entrepreneur, get creative or live stagnant. ~”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, do you know if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre? ~”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, with the growth of social media and the global market now local, now is the time to grow your leadership brand.”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Entrepreneur, be known for something, not anything, but something specific, why? That's your real distinction.”
― Onyi Anyado, The Doorway to Distinction: 200 Quotes To Inspire You To Reach New Levels Of Excellence

“Delete those non-essentials, put them on your not-to-do list, and commit to letting them go.”
― Allison Rimm

“Decision making becomes more political - less about authority and more about influence. That isn't good or bad; it's simply inevitable.”
― Michael D. Watkins, The First 90 Days with Harvard Business Review article "How Managers Become Leaders"