For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. -Margaret Heffernan Good
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. -Margaret Heffernan Respect
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. -Margaret Heffernan Fathersday
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. -Margaret Heffernan Leadership
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. -Margaret Heffernan Sad
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. -Margaret Heffernan Medical
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. -Margaret Heffernan Computers
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. -Margaret Heffernan Technology
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. -Margaret Heffernan Famous
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. -Margaret Heffernan Great
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. -Margaret Heffernan Business
Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound. -Margaret Heffernan Space
When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. -Margaret Heffernan Trust
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. -Margaret Heffernan Travel
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it. -Margaret Heffernan Courage
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know. -Margaret Heffernan Leadership
